If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
automatically.
+=head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
+
+HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and
+release updates from the Open Source community. Having precompiled
+Perl binaries available is obvious.
+
+The HP porting centres are limited in what systems they are allowed
+to port to and they usually choose the two most recent OS versions
+available. This means that at the moment of writing, there are only
+HPUX-11.00 and 11-20/22 (IA64) ports available on the porting centres.
+
+HP has asked the porting centre to move Open Source binaries
+from /opt to /usr/local, so binaries produced since the start
+of July 2002 are located in /usr/local.
+
+One of HP porting centres URL's is http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
+The port currently available is built with GNU gcc.
+
=head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. The C compiler
require the use of HP compiler-specific command-line flags.
If you decide to use gcc, make sure your installation is recent and
-complete, and be sure to read the Perl README file for more gcc-specific
+complete, and be sure to read the Perl INSTALL file for more gcc-specific
details.
=head2 PA-RISC
The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last
update is 2.0.
+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
+part of the output of the "model" command. The second column is the
+PA-RISC version and the third column is the exact chip type used.
+(Start browsing at the bottom to prevent confusion ;-)
+
+ # model
+ 9000/800/L1000-44
+ # grep L1000-44 /usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models
+ L1000-44 2.0 PA8500
+
=head2 PA-RISC 1.0
The original version of PA-RISC, HP no longer sells any system with this chip.
D280, D370, D380, D390, D650, J220, J2240, J280, J282, J400, J410,
J5000, J5500XM, J5600, J7000, J7600, K250, K260, K260-EG, K270, K360,
K370, K380, K450, K460, K460-EG, K460-XP, K470, K570, K580, L1000,
- L2000, L3000, N4000, R380, R390, RP2400, RP2430, RP2450, RP2470,
- RP5400, RP5430, RP5450, RP5470, RP7400, RP7410, RP8400, SD16000,
- SD32000, SD64000, T540, T600, V2000, V2200, V2250, V2500, V2600
+ L2000, L3000, N4000, R380, R390, RP2400, RP2405, RP2430, RP2450,
+ RP2470, RP5400, RP5405, RP5430, RP5450, RP5470, RP7400, RP7405,
+ RP7410, RP8400, SD16000, SD32000, SD64000, T540, T600, V2000, V2200,
+ V2250, V2500, V2600
+
+Just before HP took over Compaq, some systems were renamed. Visit
+http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/server_names.html to see what
+the changes are, or will be.
+
+ HP 9000 A-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp2400 series.
+ HP 9000 L-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp5400 series.
+ HP 9000 N-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp7400.
=head2 Itanium
date of this document's last update, the following systems contain
Itanium chips (this is very likely to be out of date):
- RX4610, RX9610
-
-A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file
-/opt/langtools/lib/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the
-output of the "uname -m" command (without the leading "9000/"). The
-second column is the PA-RISC version and the third column is the exact
-chip type used. (Start browsing at the bottom to prevent confusion ;-)
+ RX2600, RX4610, RX5670, RX9610
=head2 Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
1. Compile source modules with +z or +Z flag to create a .o module
which contains Position-Independent Code (PIC). The linker will
tell you in the next step if +Z was needed.
+ (For gcc, the appropriate flag is -fpic or -fPIC.)
2. Link the shared library using the -b flag. If the code calls
any functions in other system libraries (e.g., libm), it must
HP is aware of this problem. Search the HP-UX cxx-dev forums for
discussions about the subject. The short answer is that B<everything>
(all libraries, everything) must be compiled with C<+z> or C<+Z> to be
-PIC (position independent code). In HP-UX 11.00 or newer the linker
+PIC (position independent code). (For gcc, that would be
+C<-fpic> or C<-fPIC>). In HP-UX 11.00 or newer the linker
error message should tell the name of the offending object file.
A more general approach is to intervene manually, as with an example for
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
+gcc prebuilds can be fetched; the first and best (for HP-UX 11 only) is
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).
+Above mentioned distributions are depots. H.Merijn Brand has made prebuilt
+gcc binaries available on https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ for
+HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.00 in both 32- and 64-bit versions. These are
+bzipped tar archives that also include recent GNU binutils and GNU gdb.
+Read the instructions on that page to rebuild gcc using itself.
+
Building a 64bit capable gcc from source is possible only when you have
the HP C-ANSI C compiler available, which you should use anyway when
building perl.
Configure -A prepend:libswanted='cl pthread ' ...
-Do not forget the space before the trailing quote. Also note that this
-does not (yet) work with 64bit versions of GCC.
+Do not forget the space before the trailing quote.
+
+Also note that this does not (yet) work with all configurations,
+it is known to fail with 64bit versions of GCC.
=head2 GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
#0 0xc004216c in () from /usr/lib/libc.2
#1 0xc00d7550 in __nss_src_state_destr () from /usr/lib/libc.2
#2 0xc00d7768 in __nss_src_state_destr () from /usr/lib/libc.2
- #3 0xc00d78a8 in nss_delete () from /usr/lib/libc.2
- #4 0xc01126d8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.2
+ #3 0xc00d78a8 in nss_delete () from /usr/lib/libc.2
+ #4 0xc01126d8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.2
#5 0xd1950 in Perl_pp_epwent () from ./perl
#6 0x94d3c in Perl_runops_standard () from ./perl
#7 0x23728 in S_run_body () from ./perl
bug seems to be to create add to the file F</etc/nsswitch.conf>
(at least) the following lines
- group: files
+ group: files
passwd: files
Whether you are using NIS does not matter. Amazingly enough,
-the same bug affects also Solaris.
+the same bug also affects Solaris.
=head1 AUTHOR
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.6.6: 2002-05-30
+Version 0.6.7: 2002-09-05
=cut