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!!NAME
-README .machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems
+README .machten - Perl version 5 on Power !
MachTen systems
!!DESCRIPTION
This document describes how to build Perl 5 on Power
-MachTen systems, and discusses a few wrinkles in the
+!
MachTen systems, and discusses a few wrinkles in the
implementation.
-__Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen__
+__Compiling Perl 5 on !
MachTen__
-To compile perl under MachTen 4.1.4 (and probably
+To compile perl under !
MachTen 4.1.4 (and probably
earlier versions):
./Configure -de
make
make test
make install
-This builds and installs a statically-linked perl; MachTen's dynamic linking facilities are not adequate to support Perl's use of dynamically linked libraries. (See ''hints/machten.sh'' for more information.)
+This builds and installs a statically-linked perl; !
MachTen's dynamic linking facilities are not adequate to support Perl's use of dynamically linked libraries. (See ''hints/machten.sh'' for more information.)
You should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory on
your system before running the make
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
Test 257 fails due to a failure to warn about attempts
to read from a filehandle which is a duplicate of stdout
when stdout is attached to a pipe. The output of the test
contains a block comment which discusses a different
-failure, not applicable to MachTen.
+failure, not applicable to !
MachTen.
The root of the problem is that Machten does not assign
a file type to either end of a pipe (see stat), resulting,
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@
__Building external modules__
To add an external module to perl, build in the normal
-way, which is documented in ExtUtils::MakeMaker, or which
+way, which is documented in !
ExtUtils::!
MakeMaker, or which
can be driven automatically by the CPAN module
(see CPAN ), which is part of the standard
distribution. If you want to install a module which
contains XS code (C or C ++ source
