From hansm@icgned.icgroup.nl

5.005_60 fails to build on NeXTstep. There are six problems​:

1. PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC is on by default, and it's broken. In 5.005
and earlier it could be made to work by also defining HIDEMYMALLOC.
That option is not available in 5.006. I think it should be
reintroduced as a suboption of PERL_BINCOMPAT_5005.

Incidentally, the INSTALL file suggest that PERL_BINCOMPAT_5005
and PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC are off by default. They aren't in _60.

2. Perl.h tries to declare atof() as extern. On NeXT it's a macro.

3. "NXIsAlNum" is misspelled in handy.h

4. The FD_CLOEXEC macro is missing on NeXTstep.
The close-on-exec feature exists; only the macro is missing.

5. Gcc warns about line 3664 in util.c​: the comparison

  STDIO_STREAM_ARRAY[i]._file >= 0

is always true, since the _file field is unsigned.

6. Test 192 in pragma/warning fails. This a known problem for glibc
based platforms, but NeXTstep doesn't use glibc.

The patch below addresses problems 1..4.

-- HansM

Index​: perl.h
--- perl.h.orig Mon Aug 2 22​:21​:56 1999
*** perl.h Sun Aug 15 22​:34​:18 1999
@​@​ -487,6 +487,10 @​@​
# include "embed.h"
#endif

+#if defined(NeXT) || defined(__NeXT)
+#undef PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC
+#endif
+
#define MEM_SIZE Size_t

#if defined(STANDARD_C) && defined(I_STDDEF)
@​@​ -1928,7 +1932,9 @​@​
/* Fix these up for __STDC__ */
#ifndef DONT_DECLARE_STD
char *mktemp (char*);
+#ifndef atof
double atof (const char*);
+#endif
#endif

#ifndef STANDARD_C
Index​: handy.h
--- handy.h.orig Tue Jul 20 19​:17​:57 1999
*** handy.h Sun Aug 15 23​:25​:35 1999
@​@​ -241,7 +241,7 @​@​
#ifdef USE_NEXT_CTYPE

# define isALNUM_LC(c) \
- (NXIsAlnum((unsigned int)(c)) || (char)(c) == '_')
+ (NXIsAlNum((unsigned int)(c)) || (char)(c) == '_')
# define isIDFIRST_LC(c) \
  (NXIsAlpha((unsigned int)(c)) || (char)(c) == '_')
# define isALPHA_LC(c) NXIsAlpha((unsigned int)(c))
@​@​ -249,7 +249,7 @​@​
# define isDIGIT_LC(c) NXIsDigit((unsigned int)(c))
# define isUPPER_LC(c) NXIsUpper((unsigned int)(c))
# define isLOWER_LC(c) NXIsLower((unsigned int)(c))
-# define isALNUMC_LC(c) NXIsAlnum((unsigned int)(c))
+# define isALNUMC_LC(c) NXIsAlNum((unsigned int)(c))
# define isCNTRL_LC(c) NXIsCntrl((unsigned int)(c))
# define isGRAPH_LC(c) NXIsGraph((unsigned int)(c))
# define isPRINT_LC(c) NXIsPrint((unsigned int)(c))
Index​: pp_sys.c
--- pp_sys.c.orig Mon Aug 2 18​:07​:41 1999
*** pp_sys.c Sun Aug 15 21​:51​:45 1999
@​@​ -187,6 +187,10 @​@​
# include <sys/access.h>
#endif

+#if defined(HAS_FCNTL) && defined(F_SETFD) && !defined(FD_CLOEXEC)
+#define FD_CLOEXEC 1
+#endif
+
#undef PERL_EFF_ACCESS_R_OK /* EFFective uid/gid ACCESS R_OK */
#undef PERL_EFF_ACCESS_W_OK
#undef PERL_EFF_ACCESS_X_OK

Site configuration information for perl 5.00560​:

Configured by hansm at Sun Aug 15 19​:49​:47 MET DST 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 60) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=next, osvers=4_2, archname=OPENSTEP-Mach
  uname='bombadil '
  config_args='-des -Dcf_email=hansmu@​xs4all.nl -Dprefix=/usr/local -Doptimize=-g -O'
  hint=recommended, useposix=undef, d_sigaction=undef
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-g -O', gccversion=NeXT DevKit-based CPP 4.0
  cppflags='-dynamic -fno-common -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -DUSE_PERL_SBRK -arch m68k -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-dynamic -fno-common -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -DUSE_PERL_SBRK -arch m68k -arch i386 -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags ='-dynamic -prebind -arch m68k -arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib
  libs=
  libc=/NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/System, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.5.dylib
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_next.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -arch m68k -arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches​:
 

@​INC for perl 5.00560​:
  lib
  /Users/hansm/lib/perl
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00560/OPENSTEP-Mach
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00560
  /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.00560/OPENSTEP-Mach
  /usr/local/lib/site_perl
  .

Environment for perl 5.00560​:
  DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/hansm/src/perl/build/perl-5.006/perl5.005_60​:
  HOME=/Users/hansm
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/Users/hansm/bin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/games​:/usr/ucb​:/bin​:/usr/bin​:/usr/etc​:/Users/hansm/bin/cookies​:/LocalApps/Opener.app​:.
  PERL5LIB=/Users/hansm/lib/perl
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/sh