Well, here's perl5.005_01 for ppc. Hope you enjoy it.

There still are some lurking bugs and other problems:

dynamic loading still doesn't work (because there's no easy way to generate
export lists of symbols. cf bedevtalk for assorted rants from me and Chris
Herborth [whose name I've frightfully mangled in previous versions of this
file] about this)

Sockets don't work. I haven't had the time to work on integrating the win32
socket stuff with the unixy side.

the math routines are still kinda messed; this isn't perl's fault - it's
libroot.so's fault. Occasionally, you'll see numbers appear as "28.99999999"
instead of "29". Not much I can do about this, and putting together a simple
 test case has proved to be rather difficult.

However, some good news!

* perl compiles almost out of the box!
That's right, if you have make 3.76.1 from the gg dist (or compile it
yourself), you can compile perl yourself pretty easily. All you need to
do is the following:

./Configure -d, and hit ^C when it tells you to edit or hit return;
remove any references to SDBM from config.sh;
make depend
remove any lines which say "Bletch" or mention "PerlCAPI.h" from makefile
  and x2p/makefile
insert "#include <be/support/ByteOrder.h>" in ext/B/B.xs and byterun.h 
make; make install

and things should be ducky.
(For sake of comparison, the compile took about 15 minutes on a relatively
new peecee; on my 66mhz bebox, it took over an hour, all told.)

Send your problems, suggestions, bugfixes, piles of money, etc, to
dogcow@merit.edu.

Cheers!
Tom Spindler,
dogcow@merit.edu
4 Aug 1998
