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469e7be4 1If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
2see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
3specifically designed to be readable as is.
4
5=head1 NAME
6
7README.irix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems
8
9=head1 DESCRIPTION
10
11This document describes various features of Irix that will affect how Perl
12version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.
13
3df9be30 14=head2 Building 32-bit Perl in Irix
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16Use
17
18 sh Configure -Dcc='cc -n32'
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20to compile Perl 32-bit. Don't bother with -n32 unless you have 7.1
21or later compilers (use cc -version to check).
22
23(Building 'cc -n32' is the default.)
24
3df9be30 25=head2 Building 64-bit Perl in Irix
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27Use
28
29 sh Configure -Dcc='cc -64'
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31to compiler Perl 64-bit.
32
3df9be30 33=head2 About Compiler Versions of Irix
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3df9be30 35Some Irix cc versions, e.g. 7.3.1.1m (try cc -version) have been known
469e7be4 36to have issues (coredumps) when compiling perl.c. If you've used
37-OPT:fast_io=ON and this happens, try removing it. If that fails, or
38you didn't use that, then try adjusting other optimization options
39(-LNO, -INLINE, -O3 to -O2, etcetera). The compiler bug has been
40reported to SGI. (Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>)
41
3df9be30 42=head2 Linker Problems in Irix
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44If you get complaints about so_locations then search in the file
45hints/irix_6.sh for "lddflags" and do the suggested adjustments.
46(David Billinghurst <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au>)
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3df9be30 48=head2 Malloc in Irix
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50Do not try to use Perl's malloc, this will lead into very mysterious
51errors (especially with -Duse64bitall).
52
53=head2 Building with threads
54
3df9be30 55For Irix 6.2, you have to have the following patches installed:
469e7be4 56
57 1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages
3df9be30 58 1645 Irix 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates
469e7be4 59 2000 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b support modules
60 2254 Pthread library fixes
61 2401 6.2 all platform kernel rollup
62
3df9be30 63IMPORTANT: Without patch 2401, a kernel bug in Irix 6.2 will cause
64your machine to panic and crash when running threaded perl. Irix 6.3
469e7be4 65and later are okay.
66
67=head1 AUTHOR
68
69Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
70
71Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>.
72