1 This document is written in pod format hence there are punctuation
2 characters in in odd places. Do not worry, you've apparently got the
3 ASCII->EBCDIC translation worked out correctly. You can read more
4 about pod in pod/perlpod.pod or the short summary in the INSTALL file.
8 README.posix-bc - building and installing Perl for BS2000 POSIX.
12 This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl
13 on BS2000 in the POSIX subsystem.
17 This is a ported perl for the POSIX subsystem in BS2000 VERSION OSD
18 V3.1A. It may work on other versions, but that's the one we've tested
21 You may need the following GNU programs in order to install perl:
25 We used version 1.2.4, which could be installed out of the box with
26 one failure during 'make check'.
30 The yacc coming with BS2000 POSIX didn't work for us. So we had to
31 use bison. We had to make a few changes to perl in order to use the
32 pure (reentrant) parser of bison. We used version 1.25, but we had to
33 add a few changes due to EBCDIC.
37 To extract an ASCII tar archive on BS2000 POSIX you need an ASCII
38 filesystem (we used the mountpoint /usr/local/ascii for this). Now
39 you extract the archive in the ASCII filesystem without
43 export IO_CONVERSION=NO
44 gunzip < /usr/local/src/perl.tar.gz | pax -r
46 You may ignore the error message for the first element of the archive
47 (this doesn't look like a tar archive / skipping to next file...),
48 it's only the directory which will be created automatically anyway.
50 After extracting the archive you copy the whole directory tree to your
51 EBCDIC filesystem. B<This time you use I/O-conversion>:
55 cp -r /usr/local/ascii/perl5.005_02 ./
59 There is a "hints" file for posix-bc that specifies the correct values
60 for most things. The major problem is (of course) the EBCDIC character
61 set. We have german EBCDIC version.
63 Because of our problems with the native yacc we used GNU bison to
64 generate a pure (=reentrant) parser for perly.y. So our yacc is
65 really the following script:
67 -----8<-----/usr/local/bin/yacc-----8<-----
70 # Bison as a reentrant yacc:
74 while [[ $# -gt 1 ]]; do
79 # add flag %pure_parser:
81 tmpfile=/tmp/bison.$$.y
82 echo %pure_parser > $tmpfile
87 echo "/usr/local/bin/bison --yacc $params $1\t\t\t(Pure Parser)"
88 /usr/local/bin/bison --yacc $params $tmpfile
93 -----8<----------8<-----
95 We still use the normal yacc for a2p.y though!!! We made a softlink
96 called byacc to distinguish between the two versions:
98 ln -s /usr/bin/yacc /usr/local/bin/byacc
100 We build perl using GNU make. We tried the native make once and it
105 We still got a few errors during C<make test>. Some of them are the
106 result of using bison. Bison prints I<parser error> instead of I<syntax
107 error>, so we may ignore them. The following list shows
108 our errors, your results may differ:
110 op/numconvert.......FAILED tests 1409-1440
111 op/regexp...........FAILED tests 483, 496
112 op/regexp_noamp.....FAILED tests 483, 496
113 pragma/overload.....FAILED tests 152-153, 170-171
114 pragma/warnings.....FAILED tests 14, 82, 129, 155, 192, 205, 207
115 lib/bigfloat........FAILED tests 351-352, 355
116 lib/bigfltpm........FAILED tests 354-355, 358
117 lib/complex.........FAILED tests 267, 487
118 lib/dumper..........FAILED tests 43, 45
119 Failed 11/231 test scripts, 95.24% okay. 57/10595 subtests failed, 99.46% okay.
123 We have no nroff on BS2000 POSIX (yet), so we ignored any errors while
124 installing the documentation.
129 BS2000 POSIX doesn't support the shebang notation
130 (C<#!/usr/local/bin/perl>), so you have to use the following lines
134 eval 'exec /usr/local/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
135 if $running_under_some_shell;
137 =head2 Floating point anomalies
139 There appears to be a bug in the floating point implementation on BS2000 POSIX
140 systems such that calling int() on the product of a number and a small
141 magnitude number is not the same as calling int() on the quotient of
142 that number and a large magnitude number. For example, in the following
146 my $y = int($x * 1e-5) * 1e5; # '0'
147 my $z = int($x / 1e+5) * 1e5; # '100000'
148 print "\$y is $y and \$z is $z\n"; # $y is 0 and $z is 100000
150 Although one would expect the quantities $y and $z to be the same and equal
151 to 100000 they will differ and instead will be 0 and 100000 respectively.
159 L<INSTALL>, L<perlport>.
163 The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) maintains a perl-mvs mailing
164 list of interest to all folks building and/or using perl on EBCDIC
165 platforms. To subscribe, send a message of:
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173 This document was originally written by Thomas Dorner for the 5.005
176 This document was podified for the 5.6 release of perl 11 July 2000.