installed by default). You may need to worry about the networking
configuration files discussed in the last bullet below.
-=head2 Unpacking
+=head2 Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
To extract an ASCII tar archive on VM/ESA, try this:
pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar
-=head2 Setup and utilities
+=head2 Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
GNU make for VM/ESA, which may be required for the build of perl,
is available from:
http://pucc.princeton.edu/~neale/vmoe.html
-=head2 Configure
+=head2 Configure Perl on VM/ESA
Once you've unpacked the distribution, run Configure (see INSTALL for
full discussion of the Configure options), and then run make, then
this port does support dynamic loading but it's not had much testing
=item *
-
+
Don't turn on the compiler optimization flag "-O". There's
a bug in the compiler (APAR PQ18812) that generates some bad code
the optimizer is on.
=item *
-
+
As VM/ESA doesn't fully support the fork() API programs relying on
this call will not work. I've replaced fork()/exec() with spawn()
and the standalone exec() with spawn(). This has a side effect when
=back
-=head2 testing anomalies
+=head2 Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
The `make test` step runs a Perl Verification Procedure, usually before
-installation. As the 5.6.1 kit was was being assembled
+installation. As the 5.6.1 kit was being assembled
the following "failures" were known to appear on some machines
during `make test` (mostly due to ASCII vs. EBCDIC conflicts),
your results may differ:
[the list of failures being compiled]
-=head2 Usage Hints
-
+=head2 Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
+
When using perl on VM/ESA please keep in mind that the EBCDIC and ASCII
character sets are different. Perl builtin functions that may behave
differently under EBCDIC are mentioned in the perlport.pod document.
L<INSTALL>, L<perlport>, L<perlebcdic>.
-=head2 Mailing list
+=head2 Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
-If you are interested in the VM and OS/390 ports of perl then see the
-perl-mvs mailing list: The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/)
-maintains a mailing list of interest to all folks building and/or
-using perl on EBCDIC platforms. To subscribe, send a message of:
+If you are interested in the VM/ESA, z/OS (formerly known as OS/390)
+and POSIX-BC (BS2000) ports of Perl then see the perl-mvs mailing list:
+The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) maintains a mailing list of
+interest to all folks building and/or using perl on EBCDIC platforms.
+To subscribe, send a message of:
subscribe perl-mvs