(HP-UX) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is
compiled and/or runs.
+=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 occurrance 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:
+
+ ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04 HTML::Parser-3.19 XML::DOM-1.25
+ Archive::Tar-0.072 HTML::Tagset-3.03 XML::Parser-2.27
+ Compress::Zlib-1.08 MIME::Base64-2.11 XML::Simple-1.05
+ Convert::ASN1-0.10 Net-1.07 XML::XPath-1.09
+ Digest::MD5-2.11 PPM-2.1.5 XML::XSLT-0.32
+ File::CounterFile-0.12 SOAP::Lite-0.46 libwww-perl-5.51
+ 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
+files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
+
+If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
+automatically.
+
=head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. The C compiler