Larry Wall's patch v2.0-11

[wilber at alice.UUCP]

I got patch v2.0-11 running on my system but I did encounter a few glitches.
First, rindex must be defined as strrchr.  (I believe that the artificially
intelligent configuration script automatically defines index as strchr for USG
systems, but it misses rindex.)  Second, define rindex (alias strrchr) as
being of type char *.  Finally, the configuration script decided that my
compiler was smart about handling pointers to functions but I found it
necessary to tell it that it's dumb (can only handle arrays of pointers to
functions).  Otherwise compiler errors appeared.

I also had to uncomment the stuff in the 7300 makefile that creates assert.o.
As I recall there were comments in the makefile about how this is not
necessary because _assert has been added to the shared library.  This is news
to me.  Where does that fix come from?

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