The official (threaded) builds from HP, as they are shipped on the
Application DVD/CD's are available on
-http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=PERL
+http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=PERL
for both PA-RISC and IPF (Itanium Processor Family). They are built
-with the HP ANSI-C compiler by ActiveState.
+with the HP ANSI-C compiler. Up till 5.8.8 that was done by ActiveState.
To see what version is included on the DVD (assumed here to be mounted
on /cdrom), issue this command:
| cores | | PA-8900/rp34x0 | 2014 |
+--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
-From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/eol_announcement.html:
+From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/faqs.html
- The last order date for HP9000 PA-RISC systems is planned for
- December 31, 2008 and ship date of April 1, 2009. Operating system
- releases for HP-UX will continue shipping past the HP9000 systems
- last order date.
+ The last order date for HP 9000 systems was December 31, 2008.
A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file
/usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last
When you are going to use the GNU C compiler (gcc), and you don't have
gcc yet, you can either build it yourself from the sources (available
from e.g. http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/gcc/releases.html) or fetch
-a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center. There are two places where
-gcc prebuilds can be fetched; the first and best (for HP-UX 11 only) is
+a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center. gcc prebuilds can be
+fetched from
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,547,00.html
-the second is http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/ where you can also
-find the GNU binutils package. (Browse through the list, because there
-are often multiple versions of the same package available).
+(Browse through the list, because there are often multiple versions of
+the same package available).
Above mentioned distributions are depots. H.Merijn Brand has made prebuilt
gcc binaries available on http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ and/or