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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.macos b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.macos index fdafa90d59a..cc8121be1cf 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.macos +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README.macos @@ -4,27 +4,57 @@ designed to be readable as is. =head1 NAME -perlmacos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) +README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) + =head1 SYNOPSIS -For Mac OS X see README.macosx +This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic). +If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be +here (unless you are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X). -Perl under Mac OS Classic has not been supported since before Perl 5.10 -(April 2004). +When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean pre-Mac OS X, which includes +Mac OS 7, 8, and 9. -When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and I<not> -Mac OS X. =head1 DESCRIPTION -The port of Perl to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12, -though the last official production release of MacPerl corresponded to -Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, -a core part of Perl's module installation infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004. +The perl 5.6.1 source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional +pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl will be +able to, in the future, keep in closer sync with regular perl releases. + +At this time, though, it is very buggy, and is under development. An +alpha release is coming very soon. + +To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition +of the "macos" subdirectory, distributed separately. It includes extra +source files, config files, and make files. It also includes a lot of +extra Mac-specific modules. + +To build the MacPerl application, you will also need the "macperl" +directory, which includes the source files for creating the +application itself. + +All of this is also available from the SourceForge site, via +HTTP, FTP, and anonymous CVS. + + http://macperl.sourceforge.net/ + +You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely +available. These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site +for all things having to do with MacPerl development. + +MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is available on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It +is based on perl 5.004. + =head1 AUTHOR -Perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher -E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt> -continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life. +perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher +E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. It is currently maintained by Chris +Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>. + + +=head1 DATE + +Last modified 2001.04.05. |