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authorStuart Henderson <sthen@cvs.openbsd.org>2013-03-25 20:41:02 +0000
committerStuart Henderson <sthen@cvs.openbsd.org>2013-03-25 20:41:02 +0000
commit9fa73d13afdfeb4d9215045ddac6dd771b6d7d7a (patch)
tree73b089c26792acd63c896d04ad87c56a0b490071 /gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.vms
parentb6295e20079f0d7430c1582f54072acd52e7782c (diff)
merge/resolve conflicts
(some more to do after this one)
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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.vms b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.vms
index 376a76e20da..96c316c1196 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.vms
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.vms
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ specially designed to be readable as is.
=head1 NAME
-README.vms - Configuring, building, testing, and installing perl on VMS
+perlvms - Configuring, building, testing, and installing perl on VMS
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@@ -152,14 +152,14 @@ underscores and the tests will have difficulty finding them. So your
best bet is to unpack the Perl source kit on an ODS-5 volume using
recent versions of vmstar (e.g. V3.4 or later). Contrary to advice
provided with previous versions of Perl, do I<not> use the ODS-2
-compatability qualifier. Instead, use a command like the following:
+compatibility qualifier. Instead, use a command like the following:
- vmstar -xvf perl-5^.12^.2.tar
+ vmstar -xvf perl-5^.16^.3.tar
Then rename the top-level source directory like so:
- set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.12^.2.dir
- rename perl-5^.12^.2.dir perl-5_12_2.dir
+ set security/protection=(o:rwed) perl-5^.16^.3.dir
+ rename perl-5^.16^.3.dir perl-5_16_3.dir
The reason for this last step is that while filenames with multiple dots
are generally supported by Perl on VMS, I<directory> names with multiple
@@ -212,10 +212,9 @@ As a handy shortcut, the command:
@ Configure "-des"
(note the quotation marks and case) will choose reasonable defaults
-automatically (it takes DEC C over Gnu C, DEC C sockets over SOCKETSHR
-sockets, and either over no sockets). Some options can be given
-explicitly on the command line; the following example specifies a
-non-default location for where Perl will be installed:
+automatically. Some options can be given explicitly on the command line;
+the following example specifies a non-default location for where Perl
+will be installed:
@ Configure "-d" "-Dprefix=dka100:[utils.perl5.]"
@@ -254,40 +253,9 @@ change.
=head2 Socket Support (optional) for Perl on VMS
Perl includes a number of functions for IP sockets, which are available if
-you choose to compile Perl with socket support. Since IP networking is an
-optional addition to VMS, there are several different IP stacks available.
-How well integrated they are into the system depends on the stack, your
-version of VMS, and the version of your C compiler.
-
-The default solution available is to use the socket routines built into DEC
-C. Which routines are available depend on the version of VMS you're
-running, and require proper UCX emulation by your TCP/IP vendor.
-Relatively current versions of Multinet, TCPWare, Pathway, and UCX all
-provide the required libraries--check your manuals or release notes to see
-if your version is new enough.
-
-The other solution uses the SOCKETSHR library. Before VAX/VMS 5.5-2 it was
-the most portable solution. The SOCKETSHR library has not been maintained
-since VAX/VMS 5.5-2, and it is not known if will even compile with the ANSI
-C that Perl currently requires. It remains an option for historical reasons,
-just in case someone might find it useful.
-
-In combination with either UCX or NetLib, this supported all the major TCP
-stacks (Multinet, Pathways, TCPWare, UCX, and CMU) on all versions of VMS
-Perl ran on up to VAX/VMS 6.2 and Alpha VMS 1.5 with all the compilers on
-both VAX and Alpha. The portion of the socket interface was also consistent
-across versions of VMS and C compilers.
-
-It has a problem with UDP sockets when used with Multinet, though, so you
-should be aware of that.
-
-As of VAX/VMS 5.5-2 and later, CMU is the only TCP/IP program that requires
-socketshr, and the sources have been lost to the most recent CMU bug fixes,
-so CMU is limited to OpenVMS/VAX 6.2 or earlier, which is the last release
-that binaries for the last released patches are known to exist.
-
-There is currently no official web site for downloading either CMU or
-SOCKETSHR; however, copies may be found in the DECUS archives.
+you choose to compile Perl with socket support. It does this via the socket
+routines built into the CRTL regarless of which TCP/IP stack your system
+has.
=head1 Building Perl