Change 20111 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/07/10 05:31:46
Final perldelta (and perlport) sweep.
Affected files ...
... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#33 edit
... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perlport.pod#10 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#33 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#32~20105~ Wed Jul 9 21:46:01 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Wed Jul 9 22:31:46 2003
@@ -355,14 +355,10 @@
Configure flags C<-Dnoextensions=> and C<-Donlyextensions=>,
see F<INSTALL>
-The Perl malloc has been enhanced: for example in FreeBSD Perl
-now builds with that by default, operation on 64-bit platforms
-should now also be better, and there are more debugging options
-and features.
-
Mac OS X now installs with Perl version number embedded in
installation directory names for easier upgrading of user-compiled
-Perl. (In other words, the default installation no longer breaks the
+Perl, and the installation directories in general are more standard.
+(In other words, the default installation no longer breaks the
Apple-provided Perl.)
In newer FreeBSD releases Perl 5.8.0 compilation failed because of
@@ -377,6 +373,13 @@
Perl has been ported to IBM's OS/400 PASE environment. The best way
to build a Perl for PASE is to use an AIX host as a cross-compilation
environment. See README.os400.
+
+Perl is now known to build also in Hitachi HI-UXMPP.
+
+Building Perl on WinCE has been much enhanced, see the wince subdirectory.
+
+Yet another cross-compilation option has been added, now Perl builds
+on OpenZaurus, see the Cross subdirectory.
=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perlport.pod#10 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlport.pod
--- perl/pod/perlport.pod#9~19850~ Tue Jun 24 11:49:22 2003
+++ perl/pod/perlport.pod Wed Jul 9 22:31:46 2003
@@ -2129,7 +2129,7 @@
=head1 Supported Platforms
-As of July 2002 (the Perl release 5.8.0), the following platforms are
+As of July 2003 (the Perl release 5.8.1), the following platforms are
able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution
available at http://www.cpan.org/src/index.html
@@ -2179,10 +2179,9 @@
The following platforms worked with the previous releases (5.6 and
5.7), but we did not manage either to fix or to test these in time
-for the 5.8.0 release. There is a very good chance that many of these
-will work fine with the 5.8.0.
+for the 5.8.1 release. There is a very good chance that many of these
+will work fine with the 5.8.1.
- BSD/OS
DomainOS
Hurd
LynxOS
@@ -2193,7 +2192,7 @@
Unixware
Windows 3.1
-Known to be broken for 5.8.0 (but 5.6.1 and 5.7.2 can be used):
+Known to be broken for 5.8.0 and 5.8.1 (but 5.6.1 and 5.7.2 can be used):
AmigaOS
End of Patch.
