From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:55:41 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Integrate changes #8677,8680,8681,8725,8732,8776,8782,9290 X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd46a41bcdd0437b1ed9c6ad0f245c6c7076e613;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Integrate changes #8677,8680,8681,8725,8732,8776,8782,9290 from maintperl into mainline: perlport updates. p4raw-link: @8732 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: 90f80d9daeb9997573212370cc442fdb12c2aa97 p4raw-link: @8725 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: e7a9bdc155196b4f612a787f76da7521b35f2e66 p4raw-link: @8681 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: b572fec36f5c53c5a9c3496f89515a61e073fe81 p4raw-link: @8680 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: f2214cd0e8376fbc371483c7957aef88a7eafbfd p4raw-link: @8677 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: 9bc1a4975d1d72fa279effb064305b9a4c210a71 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9629 p4raw-edited: from //depot/maint-5.6/perl@9628 'edit in' pod/perlport.pod (@9227..) --- diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index e80f41e..a2c8896 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1803,6 +1803,11 @@ Not useful. (S) =over 4 +=item v1.48, 02 February 2001 + +Various updates from perl5-porters over the past year, supported +platforms update from Jarkko Hietaniemi. + =item v1.47, 22 March 2000 Various cleanups from Tom Christiansen, including migration of @@ -1885,97 +1890,98 @@ First public release with perl5.005. =head1 Supported Platforms -As of early March 2000 (the Perl release 5.6.0), the following -platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code -distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html +As of early 2001 (the Perl release 5.6.1), the following platforms are +able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution +available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html AIX + AmigaOS + Darwin (Rhapsody) + DG/UX DOS DJGPP 1) + DYNIX/ptx EPOC FreeBSD HP-UX IRIX Linux - LynxOS MachTen - MPE/iX - NetBSD + MacOS Classic 2) + NonStop-UX + ReliantUNIX (SINIX) OpenBSD + OpenVMS (VMS) OS/2 + OS X QNX - Rhapsody/Darwin 2) - SCO SV - SINIX Solaris - SVR4 - Tru64 UNIX 3) + Tru64 UNIX (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX) UNICOS UNICOS/mk - Unixware - VMS VOS - Windows 3.1 1) - Windows 95 1) 4) - Windows 98 1) 4) - Windows NT 1) 4) + Win32/NT/2K 3) 1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used - 2) new in 5.6.0: the BSD/NeXT-based UNIX of Mac OS X - 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1 - 4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ + 2) Mac OS Classic (pre-X) is almost 5.6.1-ready; building from + the source does work with 5.6.1, but additional MacOS specific + source code is needed for a complete build. Contact the mailing + list macperl-porters@macperl.org for more information. + 3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ -The following platforms worked for the previous major release -(5.005_03 being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early -March 2000), but be did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 -release of Perl. There is a very good chance that these will work -just fine with 5.6.0. +The following platforms worked for the previous release (5.6.0), +but we did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.1 release. +There is a very good chance that these will work fine with 5.6.1. - A/UX - BeOS - BSD/OS - DG/UX - DYNIX/ptx DomainOS Hurd - NextSTEP - OpenSTEP + LynxOS + MinGW + MPE/iX + NetBSD PowerMAX - SCO ODT/OSR + SCO SV SunOS - Ultrix + SVR4 + Unixware + Windows 3.1 + Windows 95 + Windows 98 + Windows Me -The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_03 -being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early March 2000). -However, standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation -in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC platform. -Support for this platform may be enabled in a future release: +The following platform worked for the 5.005_03 major release but not +5.6.0. Standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation +in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC +platform. While Perl 5.6.1 will build on this platform some +regression tests may fail and the C pragma typically +introduces text handling errors. UTF-8 support for this platform may +be enabled in a future release: - OS390 1) + OS/390 1) - 1) Previously known as MVS, or OpenEdition MVS. + 1) previously known as MVS, about to become z/OS. -Strongly related to the OS390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based +Strongly related to the OS/390 platform by also being EBCDIC-based mainframe platforms are the following platforms: - BS2000 + POSIX-BC (BS2000) VM/ESA -These are also not expected to work under 5.6.0 for the same reasons -as OS390. Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org for more details. - -MacOS (Classic, pre-X) is almost 5.6.0-ready; building from the source -does work with 5.6.0, but additional MacOS specific source code is needed -for a complete port. Contact the mailing list macperl-porters@macperl.org -for more information. +These are also expected to work, albeit with no UTF-8 support, under 5.6.1 +for the same reasons as OS/390. Contact the mailing list perl-mvs@perl.org +for more details. The following platforms have been known to build Perl from source in -the past, but we haven't been able to verify their status for the -current release, either because the hardware/software platforms are -rare or because we don't have an active champion on these -platforms--or both: +the past (5.005_03 and earlier), but we haven't been able to verify +their status for the current release, either because the +hardware/software platforms are rare or because we don't have an +active champion on these platforms--or both. They used to work, +though, so go ahead and try compiling them, and let perlbug@perl.org +of any trouble. 3b1 - AmigaOS + A/UX + BeOS + BSD/OS ConvexOS CX/UX DC/OSx @@ -1992,16 +1998,21 @@ platforms--or both: MiNT MPC NEWS-OS + NextSTEP + OpenSTEP Opus Plan 9 PowerUX RISC/os + SCO ODT/OSR Stellar SVR2 TI1500 TitanOS + Ultrix Unisys Dynix Unixware + UTS Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release: @@ -2012,8 +2023,8 @@ binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html: Perl release - AS/400 5.003 Netware 5.003_07 + OS/400 5.005_02 Tandem Guardian 5.004 The following platforms have only binaries available via