time, you will get fatal "Unresolved symbol" errors at run time when the
library is loaded.
-You may create a shared library that referers to another library, which
+You may create a shared library that refers to another library, which
may be either an archive library or a shared library. If this second
library is a shared library, this is called a "dependent library". The
dependent library's name is recorded in the main shared library, but it
io/fs.t may fail on test #18. This appears to be a bug in HP-UX and no
fix is currently available.
+=head2 perl -P and //
+
+In HP-UX perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
+-P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before
+perl sees it) is used. The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style
+until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder
+of the line. This means that common Perl constructs like
+
+ s/foo//;
+
+will turn into illegal code
+
+ s/foo
+
+The workaround is to use some other quoting characters than /,
+like for example !
+
+ s!foo!!;
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>