From @millert

Created by millert@courtesan.com

Below is an updated hints for OpenBSD; this just drops in to perl5.005_63.
I can also send diffs against the hints file in perl5.005_63 if you
would prefer that.

- todd

# hints/openbsd.sh
#
# hints file for OpenBSD; Todd Miller <millert@​openbsd.org>
# Edited to allow Configure command-line overrides by
# Andy Dougherty <doughera@​lafcol.lafayette.edu>
#
# To build with distribution paths, use​:
# ./Configure -des -Dopenbsd_distribution=defined
#

# OpenBSD has a better malloc than perl...
test "$usemymalloc" || usemymalloc='n'

# Currently, vfork(2) is not a real win over fork(2) but this will
# change starting with OpenBSD 2.7.
usevfork='true'

# setre?[ug]id() have been replaced by the _POSIX_SAVED_IDS versions
# in 4.4BSD. Configure will find these but they are just emulated
# and do not have the same semantics as in 4.3BSD.
d_setregid=$undef
d_setreuid=$undef
d_setrgid=$undef
d_setruid=$undef

#
# Not all platforms support dynamic loading...
#
case `arch` in
OpenBSD.alpha|OpenBSD.mips|OpenBSD.powerpc|OpenBSD.vax)
  usedl=$undef
  ;;
*)
  usedl=$define
  d_dlopen=$define
  d_dlerror=$define
  # we use -fPIC here because -fpic is *NOT* enough for some of the
  # extensions like Tk on some OpenBSD platforms (ie​: sparc)
  cccdlflags="-DPIC -fPIC $cccdlflags"
  lddlflags="-Bshareable $lddlflags"
  ;;
esac

#
# Tweaks for various versions of OpenBSD
#
case "$osvers" in
2.5)
  # OpenBSD 2.5 has broken odbm support
  i_dbm=$undef
  ;;
esac

# OpenBSD doesn't need libcrypt but many folks keep a stub lib
# around for old NetBSD binaries.
libswanted=`echo $libswanted | sed 's/ crypt / /'`

# Configure can't figure this out non-interactively
d_suidsafe=$define

# cc is gcc so we can do better than -O
# Allow a command-line override, such as -Doptimize=-g
test "$optimize" || optimize='-O2'

# This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure
# after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads.
cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU'
case "$usethreads" in
$define|true|[yY]*)
  # any openbsd version dependencies with pthreads?
  libswanted="$libswanted pthread"
esac
EOCBU

# When building in the OpenBSD tree we use different paths
# This is only part of the story, the rest comes from config.over
case "$openbsd_distribution" in
''|$undef|false) ;;
*)
  # We put things in /usr, not /usr/local
  prefix='/usr'
  prefixexp='/usr'
  sysman='/usr/share/man/man1'
  libpth='/usr/lib'
  glibpth='/usr/lib'
  # Ports installs non-std libs in /usr/local/lib so look there too
  locincpth='/usr/local/include'
  loclibpth='/usr/local/lib'
  # Link perl with shared libperl
  if [ "$usedl" = "$define" -a -r shlib_version ]; then
  useshrplib=true
  libperl=`. ./shlib_version; echo libperl.so.${major}.${minor}`
  fi
  ;;
esac

# end

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by root at Fri Jan 28 17:14:17 MST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=openbsd, osvers=2.6, archname=i386-openbsd
    uname='openbsd'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =''
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=define, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC ', lddlflags='-Bforcearchive -Bshareable '

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.00503
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.00503
    /usr/libdata/perl5
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd
    /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/millert
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/millert/bin/OpenBSD.i386:/home/millert/bin:/home/millert/bin/scripts:/usr/local/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/etc:/usr/local/rcs/bin:/usr/local/mh/bin:/usr/local/news/bin:/usr/local/emacs/bin:/usr/local/netpbm/bin:/usr/local/mtools/bin:/usr/local/netscape/bin:/usr/local/ghostscript/bin:/usr/local/X.V11R5/bin:/usr/local/X.V11R6/bin:/usr/local/frame/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin:/usr/local/cvs-1.10.1/bin:/usr/local/games/bin:/usr/local/archivers/bin:/usr/local/ssh/bin:/usr/local/skey/bin:/usr/local/cdrecord/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/X11/bin/.:/usr/X11R6/bin/.:/usr/local/bin/.:/usr/obj/bin/.:/usr/src/bin/.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh