X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.tru64;h=b1305ba4c86b9d0a73aab4f5f079da7ae33badb2;hb=a6b599c70633c3b011aba1a198149d25707cbc98;hp=c9937f434ec6d6be4418378f68cf6cc3d37ea66c;hpb=7db3d8c16e80e320dcd200b8ccb2ea75e6da8a05;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.tru64 b/README.tru64 index c9937f4..b1305ba 100644 --- a/README.tru64 +++ b/README.tru64 @@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ Perl threading is going to work only in Tru64 4.0 and newer releases, older operating releases like 3.2 aren't probably going to work properly with threads. +In Tru64 V5 (at least V5.1A, V5.1B) you cannot build threaded Perl with gcc +because the system header explicitly checks for supported +C compilers, gcc (at least 3.2.2) not being one of them. But the +system C compiler should work just fine. + =head2 Long Doubles on Tru64 You cannot Configure Perl to use long doubles unless you have at least @@ -71,12 +76,11 @@ selecting long doubles. The DB_File tests (db-btree.t, db-hash.t, db-recno.t) may fail you have installed a newer version of Berkeley DB into the system and the --I and -L compiler and linker flags (watch out for Configure options --Dlocincpth and -Dloclibpth, and check your /usr/local/include and -/usr/local/lib since they are included in Tru64 by default) introduce -version conflicts with the DB 1.85 headers and libraries that came -with the system (e.g. mixing a DB v2 library with the DB v1 headers -is a bad idea). +-I and -L compiler and linker flags introduce version conflicts with +the DB 1.85 headers and libraries that came with the Tru64. For example, +mixing a DB v2 library with the DB v1 headers is a bad idea. Watch +out for Configure options -Dlocincpth and -Dloclibpth, and check your +/usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib since they are included by default. The second option is to explicitly instruct Configure to detect the newer Berkeley DB installation, by supplying the right directories with @@ -85,8 +89,8 @@ running "make test" setting your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to F. The third option is to work around the problem by disabling the DB_File completely when build Perl by specifying -Ui_db to Configure, -and then using the BerkeleyFile module from CPAN instead of DB_File. -The BerkeleyFile works with Berkeley DB versions 2.* or greater. +and then using the BerkeleyDB module from CPAN instead of DB_File. +The BerkeleyDB works with Berkeley DB versions 2.* or greater. The Berkeley DB 4.1.25 has been tested with Tru64 V5.1A and found to work. The latest Berkeley DB can be found from F.