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

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index c05a39f..f039633 100644 (file)
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ 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
 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.
+find the GNU binutils package. (Browse through the list, because there
+are often multiple versions of the same package available).
 
 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
@@ -381,6 +382,23 @@ expected.
 compiler.  If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a
 version of the compiler that support 64-bit operations.)
 
+=head2 Oracle on HP-UX
+
+Using perl to connect to Oracle databases through DBI and DBD::Oracle
+has caused a lot of people many headaches. Read README.hpux in the
+DBD::Oracle for much more information. The reason to mention it here
+is that Oracle requires a perl built with libcl and libpthread, the
+latter even when perl is build without threads. Building perl using
+all defaults, but still enabling to build DBD::Oracle later on can be
+achieved using
+
+  Configure -A prepend:libswanted='cl pthread ' ...
+
+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
 
 If you attempt to compile Perl with threads on an 11.X system and also
@@ -466,6 +484,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.6.5: 2002-02-27
+Version 0.6.6: 2002-05-30
 
 =cut