1This file documents the changes made to port Perl to the Stratus 2VOS operating system. 3 4For 5.8.4: 5 Updated "config.alpha.def", "config.ga.def", "build.cm" and 6 "perl.bind" to build this version of perl. 7 8For 5.8.0: 9 Updated "config.alpha.def", "config.ga.def", "build.cm", and 10 "install_perl.cm" to use directory naming conventions that 11 are closer to the perl standard directory names. 12 13 Added "compile_full_perl.cm", "configure_full_perl.sh" and 14 "make_full_perl.sh" for building full perl. 15 16 For the first time, full perl can now be built on VOS using 17 its native Configure script and makefiles. See README.vos 18 for details. 19 20For 5.7.1: 21 Updated "build.cm" and "compile_perl.cm" to build perl using 22 either cc or gcc. 23 Brought "config.alpha.def" and "config.ga.def" up-to-date. 24 Updated "configure_perl.cm" to rebuild the header file even if 25 the date of the definitions file is equal to the date of 26 the header, because the perl distribution resets all dates 27 to the same value. 28 Update "Changes". 29 Update "perl.bind". 30 31For 5.7: 32 Updated "build.cm" to build perl using either the alpha or GA 33 version of POSIX. 34 Updated "Changes". 35 Updated "compile_perl.cm" to use either the alpha or GA 36 version of POSIX. 37 Split "config.def" into config.alpha.def and config.ga.def; 38 one for each version. Use the configure_perl.cm macro 39 to select the appropriate version. 40 Split "config.h" into config.alpha.h and config.ga.h. Use the 41 configure_perl.cm macro to select the appropriate version. 42 Updated "config.pl". It now diagnoses undefined (missing) and 43 unused substitution variables. When a new version of 44 Perl comes out, run "configure_perl.cm", add any missing 45 definitions to config.*.def, and remove any unused 46 definitions. 47 Removed "config_h.SH_orig". It is no longer needed. 48 Added "configure_perl.cm". It is used to configure perl so that 49 it can be built with either version of VOS POSIX.1 support. 50 Added "install_perl.cm" to install Perl into the appropriate 51 system directories. 52 Updated "perl.bind" to work with either the alpha or GA 53 version of POSIX. 54 Updated "vosish.h" to just use the standard "unixish.h" since 55 there are no changes needed at this time. 56 57After 5.005_63: 58 Supplied "config.pl" perl script that takes "config_h.SH_orig" 59 and "config.def" as input and produces "config.h.new". 60 With some luck, you will just need to edit "config.def" 61 to create a new port. 62 Updated "build.cm". 63 Updated "compile_perl.cm". 64 Added "config.def". 65 Updated "config.h". 66 Added "config.pl". 67 Updated "config_h.SH_orig". 68 Updated "perl.bind". 69 Updated "README.vos". 70 Updated "vos_dummies.c". 71 Updated "vosish.h". 72 73after 5.005_02: 74 Initial release. 75 Supplied "build.cm" command macro to build perl. 76 Supplied "Changes" to document the change history. 77 Supplied "compile_perl.cm" to launch processes to compile all 78 four versions of the Perl 5 binaries. 79 Supplied "config.h" to configure Perl 5 to VOS. Unfortunately, 80 since VOS does not have the configure tool, this file was 81 built by hand by editing "config_h.SH". 82 Supplied "config_h.SH_orig", which is the version of this file 83 that was current for version 5.005_02. Use this to discover 84 any subsequent changes to config_h.SH that must be 85 hand-copied into the real config.h. 86 Supplied "perl.bind" to control the VOS binder. 87 Supplied "README.vos" to describe the VOS port. 88 Supplied "test_vos_dummies.c" to test the VOS dummy functions. 89 Supplied "vos_dummies.c" to trap unimplemented POSIX functions. 90 Supplied "vosish.h" to configure Perl 5 to VOS. 91 92(end) 93