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diff --git a/chromium/third_party/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/pods/perlamiga.pod b/chromium/third_party/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/pods/perlamiga.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 418a5fe635f..00000000000 --- a/chromium/third_party/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/pods/perlamiga.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,278 +0,0 @@ -If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you -see. It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is -specially designed to be readable as is. - -=head1 NAME - -perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS - -=head1 NOTE - -B<Perl 5.8.0 cannot be built in AmigaOS. You can use either the -maintenance release Perl 5.6.1 or the development release Perl 5.7.2 -in AmigaOS. See L</"PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS"> if you want to help -fixing this problem.> - -=head1 SYNOPSIS - -One can read this document in the following formats: - - man perlamiga - multiview perlamiga.guide - -to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may -be read I<as is>: either as F<README.amiga>, or F<pod/perlamiga.pod>. - -A recent version of perl for the Amiga can be found at the Geek Gadgets -section of the Aminet: - - http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/dev/gg - -=cut - -Contents - - perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS - - NAME - SYNOPSIS - DESCRIPTION - - Prerequisites - - Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS - - Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS - INSTALLATION - Accessing documentation - - Manpages - - HTML - - GNU info files - - LaTeX docs - BUILD - - Build Prerequisites - - Getting the perl source - - Application of the patches - - Making - - Testing - - Installing the built perl - AUTHOR - SEE ALSO - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -=head2 Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS - -=over 6 - -=item B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library> - -You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is -B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the latest versions -of the following packages from the Aminet archives -( http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/ ): - - ixemul-bin - ixemul-env-bin - pdksh-bin - -Note also that this is a minimum setup; you might want to add other -packages of B<ADE> (the I<Amiga Developers Environment>). - -=item B<Version of Amiga OS> - -You need at the very least AmigaOS version 2.0. Recommended is version 3.1. - -=back - -=head2 Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS - -Start your Perl program F<foo> with arguments C<arg1 arg2 arg3> the -same way as on any other platform, by - - perl foo arg1 arg2 arg3 - -If you want to specify perl options C<-my_opts> to the perl itself (as -opposed to your program), use - - perl -my_opts foo arg1 arg2 arg3 - -Alternately, you can try to get a replacement for the system's B<Execute> -command that honors the #!/usr/bin/perl syntax in scripts and set the s-Bit -of your scripts. Then you can invoke your scripts like under UNIX with - - foo arg1 arg2 arg3 - -(Note that having *nixish full path to perl F</usr/bin/perl> is not -necessary, F<perl> would be enough, but having full path would make it -easier to use your script under *nix.) - -=head2 Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS - -Perl under AmigaOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of -deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably: - -=over 6 - -=item * - -fork() - -=item * - -some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding link count and file dates - -=item * - -inplace operation (the -i switch) without backup file - -=item * - -umask() works, but the correct permissions are only set when the file is -finally close()d - -=back - -=head1 INSTALLATION - -Change to the installation directory (most probably ADE:), and -extract the binary distribution: - -lha -mraxe x perl-$VERSION-bin.lha - -or - -tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-bin.tgz - -(Of course you need lha or tar and gunzip for this.) - -For installation of the Unix emulation, read the appropriate docs. - -=head1 Accessing documentation - -=head2 Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS - -If you have C<man> installed on your system, and you installed perl -manpages, use something like this: - - man perlfunc - man less - man ExtUtils.MakeMaker - -to access documentation for different components of Perl. Start with - - man perl - -Note: You have to modify your man.conf file to search for manpages -in the /ade/lib/perl5/man/man3 directory, or the man pages for the -perl library will not be found. - -Note that dot (F<.>) is used as a package separator for documentation -for packages, and as usual, sometimes you need to give the section - C<3> -above - to avoid shadowing by the I<less(1) manpage>. - - -=head2 Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS - -If you have some WWW browser available, you can build B<HTML> docs. -Cd to directory with F<.pod> files, and do like this - - cd /ade/lib/perl5/pod - pod2html - -After this you can direct your browser the file F<perl.html> in this -directory, and go ahead with reading docs. - -Alternatively you may be able to get these docs prebuilt from C<CPAN>. - -=head2 Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS - -Users of C<Emacs> would appreciate it very much, especially with -C<CPerl> mode loaded. You need to get latest C<pod2info> from C<CPAN>, -or, alternately, prebuilt info pages. - -=head2 Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS - -Can be constructed using C<pod2latex>. - -=head1 BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS - -Here we discuss how to build Perl under AmigaOS. - -=head2 Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS - -You need to have the latest B<ixemul> (Unix emulation for Amiga) -from Aminet. - -=head2 Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS - -You can either get the latest perl-for-amiga source from Ninemoons -and extract it with: - - tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION-src.tgz - -or get the official source from CPAN: - - http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0 - -Extract it like this - - tar xvzpf perl-$VERSION.tar.gz - -You will see a message about errors while extracting F<Configure>. This -is normal and expected. (There is a conflict with a similarly-named file -F<configure>, but it causes no harm.) - -=head2 Making Perl on AmigaOS - -Remember to use a hefty wad of stack (I use 2000000) - - sh configure.gnu --prefix=/gg - -Now type - - make depend - -Now! - - make - -=head2 Testing Perl on AmigaOS - -Now run - - make test - -Some tests will be skipped because they need the fork() function: - -F<io/pipe.t>, F<op/fork.t>, F<lib/filehand.t>, F<lib/open2.t>, F<lib/open3.t>, -F<lib/io_pipe.t>, F<lib/io_sock.t> - -=head2 Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS - -Run - - make install - -=head1 PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS - -As told above, Perl 5.6.1 was still good in AmigaOS, as was 5.7.2. -After Perl 5.7.2 (change #11423, see the Changes file, and the file -pod/perlhack.pod for how to get the individual changes) Perl dropped -its internal support for vfork(), and that was very probably the step -that broke AmigaOS (since the ixemul library has only vfork). -The build finally fails when the ext/DynaLoader is being built, and -PERL ends up as "0" in the produced Makefile, trying to run "0" does -not quite work. Also, executing miniperl in backticks seems to -generate nothing: very probably related to the (v)fork problems. -B<Fixing the breakage requires someone quite familiar with the ixemul -library, and how one is supposed to run external commands in AmigaOS -without fork().> - -=head1 AUTHORS - -Norbert Pueschel, pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de -Jan-Erik Karlsson, trg@privat.utfors.se - -=head1 SEE ALSO - -perl(1). - -=cut |