=head2 Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
-As of application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is shipped with
-perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and
-can be installed using
+Application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is the first to ship
+with Perl. By the time it was perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first
+occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and can be installed using
swinstall -s /cdrom perl
assuming you have mounted that CD on /cdrom. In this version the
-following modules are installed:
+following modules were installed:
ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04 HTML::Parser-3.19 XML::DOM-1.25
Archive::Tar-0.072 HTML::Tagset-3.03 XML::Parser-2.27
Font::AFM-1.18 Storable-1.011 libxml-perl-0.07
HTML-Tree-3.11 URI-1.11 perl-ldap-0.23
-The build is a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
+The build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
automatically.
+More recent (preinstalled) HP-UX systems have more recent versions of
+Perl and the updated modules.
+
=head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and
The HP porting centres are limited in what systems they are allowed
to port to and they usually choose the two most recent OS versions
available. This means that at the moment of writing, there are only
-HPUX-11.00 and 11-20/22 (IA64) ports available on the porting centres.
+HP-UX 11.11 (pa-risc 2.0) and HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) ports available
+on the porting centres.
HP has asked the porting centre to move Open Source binaries
from /opt to /usr/local, so binaries produced since the start
Motorola chipset.
The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last
-update is 2.0.
+update is 2.0. HP PA-RISC systems are usually refered to with model
+description "HP 9000".
A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file
/usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last
=head2 Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
HP-UX also runs on the new Itanium processor. This requires the use
-of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v1.6), and with
+of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v2), and with
the exception of a few differences detailed below and in later sections,
Perl should compile with no problems.
because shared libraries created on an Itanium system cannot be loaded
while running a PA-RISC executable.
+HP Itanium 2 systems are usually refered to with model description
+"HP Integrity".
+
=head2 Itanium & Itanium 2
HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.7.2: 2004-12-06
+Version 0.7.3: 2005-03-08
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