Further tweaks to perluniintro.pod

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / README.hpux

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index 0fbdfcf..b0536dc 100644 (file)
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -38,6 +38,24 @@ files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
 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
@@ -116,17 +134,18 @@ contain PA-RISC 2.0 chips:
     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 N-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp7400.
     HP 9000 L-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp5400 series.
+    HP 9000 N-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp7400.
 
 =head2 Itanium
 
@@ -273,12 +292,18 @@ 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
+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.
@@ -470,8 +495,8 @@ the following:
   #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
@@ -482,11 +507,11 @@ The key here is the C<nss_delete> call.  One workaround for this
 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
 
@@ -497,6 +522,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.6.6: 2002-05-30
+Version 0.6.7: 2002-09-05
 
 =cut