
			 Perl5 Metaconfig Units

		     Copyright (c) 1996, Andy Dougherty
			    All rights reserved.

These units are the ones I used to build Configure and config_h.SH
in the Perl5 distribution.

The Configure script and config_h.SH file in the Perl distribution are
generated by a program called metaconfig.  To run metaconfig, you will
need the full dist 3.0 distribution, maintained by Raphael Manfredi.
As of this writing, the current version is dist3.0, patchlevel 60.
Dist version dist-3.0@60.tar.gz is available on CPAN (the Comprehensive
Perl Archive Network) as
<http://www.perl.com/perl/CPAN/authors/id/RAM/dist-3.0@60.tar.gz>.  It
is also available from
<ftp://ftp.foretune.co.jp/pub/tools/dist/dist-3.0-pl60.tar.gz>.

Instructions:

1.  Unpack the full perl5 sources.

2.  Unpack the archive containing this file in the perl5 source
directory; thus you should have a directory 'U' under the perl5
sources.  That directory will contain the metaconfig units for perl5.

3.  Obtain and install dist-3.0pl60.

4.  Apply the patches dist3.pt* to the standard dist3.0pl60 units.

5.  cd to your main perl5 source directory and type

	metaconfig

6.  Let me know about any changes, corrections, or enhancements.


Copyright Information:

Unless otherwise indicated, the files contained in this
distribution are:

    Copyright (c) 1996, Andy Dougherty

The following licensing terms apply to all files contained in
this distribution:

You may distribute the files contained in this distribution
under the terms of either

    a) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl, or

    b) the "Artistic License" which comes with dist, or

    c) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
    Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
    later version (see the file "Copying" that comes with the
    Perl distribution).


Many of the units here have been derived from units associated with the
metaconfig program of Raphael Manfredi's "dist" distribution.  These
units list Raphael Manfredi as the Copyright holder.  dist is
distributed under a modified version of the Perl Artistic License.
Clause 7 of this modified license as contained in dist-3.0-pl60
provides:

    7. You may reuse parts of this Package in your own programs,
       provided that you explicitly state where you got them from,
       in the source code (and, left to your courtesy, in the
       documentation), duplicating all the associated copyright
       notices and disclaimers. Besides your changes, if any, must
       be clearly marked as such. Parts reused that way will no
       longer fall under this license if, and only if, the name of
       your program(s) have no immediate connection with the name of
       the Package itself or its associated programs.  You may then
       apply whatever restrictions you wish on the reused parts or
       choose to place them in the Public Domain--this will apply
       only within the context of your package.

In accordance with this clause, the versions of these units
contained here are made available under the same terms as the
rest of the units.

    Andy Dougherty			doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
    Dept. of Physics 
    Lafayette College
    Easton, PA  18042-1782
