Re: Smoke 14870

From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
Message-Id: <20020227163729.1D2B.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>

(with some additional garnish)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14895

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index dd11e49..d6dd71b 100644 (file)
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -309,6 +309,31 @@ April 1999 (B3920-13941)" or the Freely available PTH package, available
 though worldwide HP-UX mirrors of precompiled packages
 (e.g. http://hpux.tn.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/)
 
+If you are going to use the HP DCE package, the library used for threading
+is /usr/lib/libcma.sl, but there have been multiple updates of that
+library over time. Perl will build with the first version, but it
+will not pass the test suite. Older Oracle versions might be a compelling
+reason, not to update that library, otherwise please find a newer version
+in one of the following patches: PHSS_19739, PHSS_20608, or PHSS_23672
+
+reformatted output:
+
+  d3:/usr/lib 106 > what libcma-*.1
+  libcma-00000.1:
+     HP DCE/9000 1.5               Module: libcma.sl (Export)
+                                   Date: Apr 29 1996 22:11:24
+  libcma-19739.1:
+     HP DCE/9000 1.5 PHSS_19739-40 Module: libcma.sl (Export)
+                                   Date: Sep  4 1999 01:59:07
+  libcma-20608.1:
+     HP DCE/9000 1.5 PHSS_20608    Module: libcma.1 (Export)
+                                   Date: Dec  8 1999 18:41:23
+  libcma-23672.1:
+     HP DCE/9000 1.5 PHSS_23672    Module: libcma.1 (Export)
+                                   Date: Apr  9 2001 10:01:06
+  d3:/usr/lib 107 >
+
+
 =head2 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
 
 Beginning with HP-UX 11.00, programs compiled under HP-UX can take
@@ -419,11 +444,12 @@ the same bug affects also Solaris.
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>
+H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
 
 With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.6.4: 2001-10-09
+Version 0.6.5: 2002-02-27
 
 =cut

diff --git a/hints/hpux.sh b/hints/hpux.sh
index 9e4a01f..f7660e3 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/hpux.sh
+++ b/hints/hpux.sh
@@ -409,6 +409,27 @@ EOM
                if [ -f /usr/lib/libcma.sl ]; then
                    # DCE (from Core OS CD) is installed
 
+                   # Check if it is pristine, or patched
+                   cmavsn=`what /usr/lib/libcma.sl 2>&1 | grep 1996`
+                   if [ ! -z "$cmavsn" ]; then
+                       cat <<EOM >&4
+\a
+***************************************************************************
+
+Perl will support threading through /usr/lib/libcma.sl from
+the HP DCE package, but the version found is too old to be
+reliable.
+
+If you are not depending on this specific version of the library,
+consider to upgrade using patch PHSS_23672 (read README.hpux)
+
+***************************************************************************
+
+(sleeping for 10 seconds...)
+EOM
+                         sleep 10
+                       fi
+
                    # It needs # libcma and OLD_PTHREADS_API. Also
                    # <pthread.h> needs to be #included before any
                    # other includes (in perl.h)