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1 | This is a fully ported perl for OS/390 Release 3. It may work on |
| 2 | other versions, but that's the one we've tested it on. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | If you've downloaded the binary distribution, it needs to be |
| 5 | installed below /usr/local. Source code distributions have an |
| 6 | automated `make install` step that means you do not need to extract |
| 7 | the source code below /usr/local (though that is where it will be |
| 8 | installed by default). You may need to worry about the networking |
| 9 | configuration files discussed in the last bullet below. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | http://www.s390.ibm.com/products/oe/bpxqp1.html |
| 14 | |
| 15 | to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar |
| 18 | |
| 19 | GNU make for OS/390, which may be required for the build of perl, |
| 20 | is available from: |
| 21 | |
| 22 | http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Once you've unpacked the distribution, run Configure (see INSTALL for |
| 25 | full discussion of the Configure options), and then run make, then |
| 26 | "make test" then "make install" (this last step may require UID=0 |
| 27 | privileges) |
| 28 | |
| 29 | There is a "hints" file for os390 that specifies the correct values |
| 30 | for most things. Some things to watch out for are |
| 31 | |
| 32 | - this port doesn't support dynamic loading. Although |
| 33 | OS/390 has support for DLLs, there are some differences |
| 34 | that cause problems for perl. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - You may see a "WHOA THERE!!!" message for $d_shmatprototype |
| 37 | it is OK to keep the recommended "define". |
| 38 | |
| 39 | - Don't turn on the compiler optimization flag "-O". There's |
| 40 | a bug in either the optimizer or perl that causes perl to |
| 41 | not work correctly when the optimizer is on. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | - Some of the configuration files in /etc used by the |
| 44 | networking APIs are either missing or have the wrong |
| 45 | names. In particular, make sure that there's either |
| 46 | an /etc/resolv.conf or and /etc/hosts, so that |
| 47 | gethostbyname() works, and make sure that the file |
| 48 | /etc/proto has been renamed to /etc/protocol (NOT |
| 49 | /etc/protocols, as used by other Unix systems). |
| 50 | |
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51 | - Some of the parser default files in /sample are needed in /etc. |
| 52 | In particular be sure that you at least copy /sample/yy* to /etc |
| 53 | before running perl's Configure. |
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55 | When using perl on OS/390 please keep in mind that the EBCDIC and ASCII |
| 56 | character sets are different. Perl builtin functions that may behave |
| 57 | differently under EBCDIC are mentioned in the perlport.pod document. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | OpenEdition (UNIX System Services) does not (yet) support the #! means |
| 60 | of script invokation. |
| 61 | See: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | head `whence perldoc` |
| 64 | |
| 65 | for an example of how to use the "eval exec" trick to ask the shell to |
| 66 | have perl run your scripts for you. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | perl-mvs mailing list: The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) |
| 69 | maintains a mailing list of interest to all folks building and/or |
| 70 | using perl on EBCDIC platforms. To subscibe, send a message of: |
| 71 | |
| 72 | subscribe perl-mvs |
| 73 | |
| 74 | to majordomo@perl.org. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Regression tests: as the 5.005 kit was was being assembled |
| 77 | the following "failures" were known to appear on some machines |
| 78 | during `make test` (mostly due to ASCII vs. EBCDIC conflicts), |
| 79 | your results may differ: |
| 80 | |
| 81 | comp/cpp..........FAILED at test 0 |
| 82 | op/pack...........FAILED at test 58 |
| 83 | op/stat...........Out of memory! |
| 84 | op/taint..........FAILED at test 73 |
| 85 | lib/errno.........FAILED at test 1 |
| 86 | lib/posix.........FAILED at test 19 |
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