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http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/hp_freeware/perl/
Perl language for MPE
- Last updated June 2, 2000 @ 0400 UTC
+ Last updated January 12, 2006 @ 2100 UTC
+
=head1 NOTE
=head1 What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
+January 12, 2006
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Updated for perl-5.8.8 and perl-5.9.3 by Ken Hirsch.
+
+Simplified the build process by using the MPEAUTOCONF
+functionality in Mark Klein's ld.
+
+If you build this from scratch, make sure you have a version
+of ld which supports it. In the shell, type
+
+ ld --help
+ and look for AUTOCONF or MPEAUTOCONF near the bottom
+
+ or do this:
+ ld --help 2>&1 | grep AUTOCONF
+
+If you see don't see AUTOCONF or MPEAUTOCONF, make sure you get a new
+version.
+
+You also do not have to use mpeix/relink after building, so the
+recommend sequence is:
+
+ ./Configure -de
+
+ # or ./Configure -de -Dusedevel
+ # if you're building a development version
+
+ make
+ make test
+ # if you run this in a job, do "make test_notty"
+
+ make install
+
+Be prepared for a wait. These take much longer on MPE/iX than on a Unix
+system, because of a slow forking, mostly. On a lightly-loaded HP3000
+Series 979 running MPE/iX 7.5:
+
+ Configure: 1 hour
+ make: 1 hour 15 minutes
+ make test 1 hour 45 minutes
+
+Various socket problems were fixed in mpeix.c.
+
+Mark Klein provided a fixed sigsetjmp (that works with dynamic
+libraries) in mpeix_setjmp.c
+
+=item *
+
June 1, 2000
=over 4
available to me on MPE.
Please send your comments, questions, and bug reports directly to me,
-Mark Bixby ( http://www.bixby.org/mark/ ), by e-mailing to
-mark@bixby.org. Or just post them to HP3000-L.
+Mark Bixby ( http://www.bixby.org/mark/ ). Or just post them to HP3000-L.
The platform I'm using to do this port is an HP 3000 957RX running
MPE/iX 6.0 and using the GNU gcc C compiler
=item *
-If you use Perl/iX fcntl() against a socket it will fail, because MPE
-requires that you use sfcntl() instead. Perl/iX does not presently
-support sfcntl().
-
-=item *
-
MPE requires GETPRIVMODE() in order to setuid(). There are too many
calls to setuid() within Perl/iX, so I have not attempted an automatic
GETPRIVMODE() solution similar to bind().
=head1 AUTHOR
-Mark Bixby, mark@bixby.org
+Mark Bixby, http://www.bixby.org/mark/