Hello folks,

this is a binary distribution of the latest and greatest Perl
5.002gamma. Perl is available from CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive
Network). The nearest site here in Germany is

ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/programming/languages/perl/CPAN

See the manpage perlmod(1) for more info. I think in the meantime perl
5.002 has been officially release, but I don't expect, that is
significantly different from this gamma version.

Executing perl -v reports:

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This is perl, version 5.002 gamma

Copyright 1987-1996, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.
-------------------------

Perl was build under SINIX-P V5.42A10 with the CDS 1.1 C
compiler. Therefore this binary should work on any SINIX system with a
version 5.42 or later. Simply follow the instructions in the INSTALL
file. Essentially a './Configure -des -Dprefix="/home/tools"' did it
for me. During the build process, when the POSIX extension is build,
manual intervention is necessary. Simply replace '-lm_s' in
ext/POSIX/Makefile with '-lm'.

All regressions tests except one passed. This test also failed on earlier
versions. This never caused any problems for me.

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....
....
comp/cpp........8090.c      22: [fatal]:     1060 Include file 'Comp.cpp.inc' ca
nnot be opened
[error]:        9025 /bin/cc : frontend error while compiling file '.8090.c'
Can't find string terminator "END" anywhere before EOF at .8090.c line 13.
FAILED on test 0
....
....

Failed 1 test, 98.89% okay.
u=0.99  s=2.92  cu=27.87  cs=29.76  files=89  tests=1926
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The whole package was build with "/home/tools" as the root
directory. Therefore all files, which are dynamically loaded, are
searched relative to this path. Therefore you should execute the
following steps:

	cd /home
	mkdir tools
	cd tools
	gzip -dc perl5.002gamma-rm.bin.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Now you have to extend your shell search path with "/home/tools/bin".

If you install the package into a different location, you have to
either set the environment variables according to the documentation or
create a symbolic link from the installation directory to
"/home/tools". For example, if you usually install your stuff under
"/usr/local/" in subdirectories like "bin", "lib" and "include", you
should make the following steps:

	cd /usr/local
	gzip -dc perl5.002gamma-rm.bin.tar.gz | tar xvf -
	cd /home
	ln -s /usr/local tools

Now, if you execute "ls -l /home/tools/lib/perl5", you should see a
bunch of files with a ".pl" extension.

The manual pages can viewed online through a WWW browser under the URL

	http://utensil.pdb.sni.de/man-pages

I'm also going to put a Postscript file of all manual pages there
inclusive a permuted index. Here you can also read about some other
interesting stuff.

If you start perl and get an error message, that it can not find
libperl.so.2, you have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory where
libperl.so.2 is located. For example like this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/perl5/RM600-svr4/5.002/CORE
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Mail me (ridderbusch.pad@sni.de) if you have any problem.

Oh, I nearly forgot. This perl version has three non standard extension
build in. It is build with MSQL support. MSQL is a mini SQL database
application. Mail me, if you want to know details. And it contains an
extension to access the Postgres95 (Version 1.0) database though
perl. And last but not least, it is build with the GD-1.00 interface
from Lincoln Stein, which interface to the gd1.2 library from Thomas
Boutell, which allow to draw GIF pictures on the fly. This is
particular useful for WWW applications.
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