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commit 1e436e33038f3b8b5c79a2e5c8edab3894665709
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri Oct 13 11:20:12 2017 +0200
Update metaconfig related information
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Summary of changes:
Configure | 15 ++++++++++-----
Porting/pumpkin.pod | 26 +++++++++++---------------
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 0763b7e95c..bc2c9e946e 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -15,18 +15,17 @@
# called "metaconfig". Rather than working with this copy of Configure,
# you may wish to get metaconfig. Perl uses a modified version of this
# tool, available in the "dist" folder in the checkout of the git repo
-# $ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig
+# $ git clone https://github.com/perl5-metaconfig/metaconfig metaconfig
# The original dist package (including metaconfig) is available via SVN:
-# $ svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dist/code/trunk/dist
+# $ git clone https://github.com/rmanfredi/dist.git dist-git
#
# Though this script was generated by metaconfig from metaunits, it is
# OK to send patches against Configure itself. It's up to the Configure
# pumpkin to backport the patch to the metaunits if it is accepted.
# For more information on patching Configure, see pod/perlhack.pod
#
-# The metaunits are also available from the public git repository:
-# http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/ or
-# $ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git metaconfig
+# The metaunits are also available from the public github repository:
+# https://github.com/perl5-metaconfig/metaconfig/tree/master/U
#
# See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information on metaconfig.
@@ -667,6 +666,7 @@ d_memcmp=''
d_memcpy=''
d_memmem=''
d_memmove=''
+d_memrchr=''
d_memset=''
d_mkdir=''
d_mkdtemp=''
@@ -16515,6 +16515,10 @@ eval $inlibc
set memmove d_memmove
eval $inlibc
+: see if memrchr exists
+set memrchr d_memrchr
+eval $inlibc
+
: see if memset exists
set memset d_memset
eval $inlibc
@@ -24734,6 +24738,7 @@ d_memcmp='$d_memcmp'
d_memcpy='$d_memcpy'
d_memmem='$d_memmem'
d_memmove='$d_memmove'
+d_memrchr='$d_memrchr'
d_memset='$d_memset'
d_mkdir='$d_mkdir'
d_mkdtemp='$d_mkdtemp'
diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
index a1fe67503b..7253fe7770 100644
--- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod
+++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
@@ -322,11 +322,15 @@ useful information - DAPM 7/2009.
If you need to make changes to Configure or config_h.SH, it may be best to
change the appropriate metaconfig units instead, and regenerate Configure.
- metaconfig -m
+ mconfig -m -O
will regenerate F<Configure> and F<config_h.SH>. Much more information
on obtaining and running metaconfig is in the F<U/README> file
-that comes with Perl's metaconfig units.
+that comes with Perl's metaconfig units. See the head of Configure for the
+recent information on how to obtain the units and the tools. The base boils
+down to
+
+` git clone github.com:perl5-metaconfig/metaconfig metaconfig
Since metaconfig is hard to change, running correction scripts after
this generation is sometimes needed. Configure gained complexity over
@@ -335,16 +339,8 @@ when compiling perl. Therefor, you need to run
Porting/config_h.pl
after that generation. All that and more is described in the README
files that come with the metaunits.
-Perl's metaconfig units should be available on CPAN. A set of units
-that will work with perl5.9.x is in a file with a name similar to
-F<mc_units-20070423.tgz> under L<http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/>.
-The mc_units tar file should be unpacked in your main perl source directory.
-Note: those units were for use with 5.9.x. There may have been changes since
-then. Check for later versions or contact perl5-port...@perl.org to obtain a
-pointer to the current version.
-
-Alternatively, do consider if the F<*ish.h> files or the hint files might be
-a better place for your changes.
+Alternatively, do consider if the F<*ish.h> files or the hint files might
+be a better place for your changes.
=head2 MANIFEST
@@ -1385,11 +1381,11 @@ copyrights alone. Doing more than that requires quite
a bit of tracking.
=head1 AUTHORS
Original author: Andy Dougherty dough...@lafayette.edu .
-Additions by Chip Salzenberg c...@perl.com and
-Tim Bunce tim.bu...@ig.co.uk .
+Additions by Chip Salzenberg c...@perl.com, Tim Bunce and the perl5
+development team.
All opinions expressed herein are those of the authorZ<>(s).
=head1 LAST MODIFIED
-2009-07-08-01 Jesse Vincent
+2017-10-13 H.Merijn Brand
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