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+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -12,6 +12,32 @@ This document describes various features of HP's Unix operating system
 (HP-UX) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is
 compiled and/or runs.
 
+=head2 Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
+
+As of application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is shipped with
+perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first occurrance is on CD 5012-7954 and
+can be installed using
+
+    swinstall -s /cdrom perl
+
+assuming you have mounted that CD on /cdrom. In this version the
+following modules are installed:
+
+    ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04   HTML::Parser-3.19   XML::DOM-1.25
+    Archive::Tar-0.072          HTML::Tagset-3.03   XML::Parser-2.27
+    Compress::Zlib-1.08         MIME::Base64-2.11   XML::Simple-1.05
+    Convert::ASN1-0.10          Net-1.07            XML::XPath-1.09
+    Digest::MD5-2.11            PPM-2.1.5           XML::XSLT-0.32
+    File::CounterFile-0.12      SOAP::Lite-0.46     libwww-perl-5.51
+    Font::AFM-1.18              Storable-1.011      libxml-perl-0.07
+    HTML-Tree-3.11              URI-1.11            perl-ldap-0.23
+
+The build is a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
+files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
+
+If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
+automatically.
+
 =head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
 
 When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler.  The C compiler
@@ -54,15 +80,15 @@ system.
 
 The following systems contain with PA-RISC 1.1 chips:
 
-    705, 710, 712, 715, 720, 722, 725, 728, 730, 735, 742, 743, 745, 747, 750,
-    755, 770, 777, 778, 779, 800, 801, 803, 806, 807, 809, 811, 813, 816, 817,
-    819, 821, 826, 827, 829, 831, 837, 839, 841, 847, 849, 851, 856, 857, 859,
-    867, 869, 877, 887, 891, 892, 897, A180, A180C, B115, B120, B132L, B132L+,
-    B160L, B180L, C100, C110, C115, C120, C160L, D200, D210, D220, D230, D250,
-    D260, D310, D320, D330, D350, D360, D410, DX0, DX5, DZO, E25, E35, E45,
-    E55, F10, F20, F30, G30, G40, G50, G60, G70, H20, H30, H40, H50, H60, H70,
-    I30, I40, I50, I60, I70, J200, J210, J210XC, K100, K200, K210, K220, K230,
-    K400, K410, K420, S700i, S715, S724, S760, T500, T520
+    705, 710, 712, 715, 720, 722, 725, 728, 730, 735, 742, 743, 744, 745, 747,
+    750, 755, 770, 777, 778, 779, 800, 801, 803, 806, 807, 809, 811, 813, 816,
+    817, 819, 821, 826, 827, 829, 831, 837, 839, 841, 847, 849, 851, 856, 857,
+    859, 867, 869, 877, 887, 891, 892, 897, A180, A180C, B115, B120, B132L,
+    B132L+, B160L, B180L, C100, C110, C115, C120, C160L, D200, D210, D220,
+    D230, D250, D260, D310, D320, D330, D350, D360, D410, DX0, DX5, DXO, E25,
+    E35, E45, E55, F10, F20, F30, G30, G40, G50, G60, G70, H20, H30, H40, H50,
+    H60, H70, I30, I40, I50, I60, I70, J200, J210, J210XC, K100, K200, K210,
+    K220, K230, K400, K410, K420, S700i, S715, S744, S760, T500, T520
 
 =head2 PA-RISC 2.0
 
@@ -73,11 +99,21 @@ As of the date of this document's last update, the following systems
 contain PA-RISC 2.0 chips (this is very likely to be out of date):
 
     700, 780, 781, 782, 783, 785, 802, 804, 810, 820, 861, 871, 879, 889, 893,
-    895, 896, 898, 899, B1000, C130, C140, C160, C180, C180+, C180-XP, C200+,
-    C400+, C3000, C360, CB260, D270, D280, D370, D380, D390, D650, J220, J2240,
-    J280, J282, J400, J410, J5000, J7000, K250, K260, K260-EG, K270, K360,
-    K370, K380, K450, K460, K460-EG, K460-XP, K470, K570, K580, L1000, L2000,
-    N4000, R380, R390, T540, T600, V2000, V2200, V2250, V2500
+    895, 896, 898, 899, A400, A500, B1000, B2000, C130, C140, C160, C180,
+    C180+, C180-XP, C200+, C400+, C3000, C360, C3600, CB260, D270, 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, RP8400, SD16000, SD32000, SD64000, T540, T600, V2000, V2200,
+    V2250, V2500, V2600
+
+=head2 Itanium
+
+HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the
+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
@@ -348,6 +384,33 @@ system.
 In general, a value of 256MB (or "256*1024*1024") is sufficient for
 Perl to compile at maximum optimization.
 
+=head1 nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
+
+You may get a bus error core dump from the op/pwent or op/grent
+tests. If compiled with -g you will see a stack trace much like
+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 
+  #5  0xd1950 in Perl_pp_epwent () from ./perl
+  #6  0x94d3c in Perl_runops_standard () from ./perl
+  #7  0x23728 in S_run_body () from ./perl
+  #8  0x23428 in perl_run () from ./perl
+  #9  0x2005c in main () from ./perl
+
+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 
+  passwd: files
+
+Whether you are using NIS does not matter.  Amazingly enough,
+the same bug affects also Solaris.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>
@@ -356,6 +419,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.6.3: 2001-05-16
+Version 0.6.4: 2001-10-09
 
 =cut