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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/hints/linux.sh b/contrib/perl5/hints/linux.sh
index 4764e9e..4fb2f89 100644
--- a/contrib/perl5/hints/linux.sh
+++ b/contrib/perl5/hints/linux.sh
@@ -43,12 +43,30 @@ ignore_versioned_solibs='y'
# available via anonymous FTP at tsx-11.mit.edu in
# /pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd.
# Allow a command line override, e.g. Configure -Dprefix=/foo/bar
-case "$prefix" in
-'') prefix='/usr' ;;
-esac
-
-# gcc-2.6.3 defines _G_HAVE_BOOL to 1, but doesn't actually supply bool.
-ccflags="-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL $ccflags"
+#
+# Addendum for 5.005_57 and beyond:
+#
+# However, most Linux users probably already have a /usr/bin/perl.
+# We can't know whether the current user is intending to *replace*
+# that /usr/bin/perl or whether the user is intending to install
+# a *different* installation.
+#
+# Here is what we used to do:
+# Allow a command line override, e.g. Configure -Dprefix=/foo/bar
+# case "$prefix" in
+# '') prefix='/usr' ;;
+# esac
+#
+# For now, let's assume that most Linux users get their /usr/bin/perl
+# from some packaging system, so that those compiling from source are
+# probably the more experimental folks and hence probably aren't
+# intending to replace /usr/bin/perl (at least just yet).
+# This change makes linux consistent with most other unix platforms
+# in having a default of prefix=/usr/local.
+# These notes can probably safely be removed in 5.005_50 and beyond.
+#
+# 9 April 1999 Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
+#
# BSD compatability library no longer needed
# 'kaffe' has a /usr/lib/libnet.so which is not at all relevent for perl.
@@ -56,6 +74,19 @@ set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ bsd / /' -e 's/ net / /'`
shift
libswanted="$*"
+# If you have glibc, then report the version for ./myconfig bug reporting.
+# (Configure doesn't need to know the specific version since it just uses
+# gcc to load the library for all tests.)
+# Is this sufficiently robust for libc5 systems as well as
+# glibc-2.1.x systems?
+# We don't use __GLIBC__ and __GLIBC_MINOR__ because they
+# are insufficiently precise to distinguish things like
+# libc-2.0.6 and libc-2.0.7.
+if test -L /lib/libc.so.6; then
+ libc=`ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 | awk '{print $NF}'`
+ libc=/lib/$libc
+fi
+
# Configure may fail to find lstat() since it's a static/inline
# function in <sys/stat.h>.
d_lstat=define
@@ -224,6 +255,15 @@ fi
#'osfmach3ppc') ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' ;;
#esac
+case "`uname -r`" in
+sparc-linux)
+ case "$cccdlflags" in
+ *-fpic*) cccdlflags="`echo $cccdlflags|sed 's/-fpic/-fPIC/'`" ;;
+ *) cccdlflags="$cccdlflags -fPIC" ;;
+ esac
+ ;;
+esac
+
# 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'
@@ -236,3 +276,13 @@ $define|true|[yY]*)
;;
esac
EOCBU
+
+cat > UU/uselargefiles.cbu <<'EOCBU'
+# This script UU/uselargefiles.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure
+# after it has prompted the user for whether to use large files.
+case "$uselargefiles" in
+''|$define|true|[yY]*)
+ ccflags="$ccflags -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+ ;;
+esac
+EOCBU
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