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1 | This is a fully ported perl for OS/390 Release 3. It may work on |
| 2 | other versions, but that's the one we've tested it on. | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | If you've downloaded the binary distribution, it needs to be | |
| 5 | installed below /usr/local. Source code distributions have an | |
| 6 | automated `make install` step that means you do not need to extract | |
| 7 | the source code below /usr/local (though that is where it will be | |
| 8 | installed by default). You may need to worry about the networking | |
| 9 | configuration files discussed in the last bullet below. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at: | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | http://www.s390.ibm.com/products/oe/bpxqp1.html | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this: | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | GNU make for OS/390, which may be required for the build of perl, | |
| 20 | is available from: | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | Once you've unpacked the distribution, run Configure (see INSTALL for | |
| 25 | full discussion of the Configure options), and then run make, then | |
| 26 | "make test" then "make install" (this last step may require UID=0 | |
| 27 | privileges) | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | There is a "hints" file for os390 that specifies the correct values | |
| 30 | for most things. Some things to watch out for are | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | - this port doesn't support dynamic loading. Although | |
| 33 | OS/390 has support for DLLs, there are some differences | |
| 34 | that cause problems for perl. | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | - You may see a "WHOA THERE!!!" message for $d_shmatprototype | |
| 37 | it is OK to keep the recommended "define". | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | - Don't turn on the compiler optimization flag "-O". There's | |
| 40 | a bug in either the optimizer or perl that causes perl to | |
| 41 | not work correctly when the optimizer is on. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | - Some of the configuration files in /etc used by the | |
| 44 | networking APIs are either missing or have the wrong | |
| 45 | names. In particular, make sure that there's either | |
| 46 | an /etc/resolv.conf or and /etc/hosts, so that | |
| 47 | gethostbyname() works, and make sure that the file | |
| 48 | /etc/proto has been renamed to /etc/protocol (NOT | |
| 49 | /etc/protocols, as used by other Unix systems). | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | When using perl on OS/390 please keep in mind that the EBCDIC and ASCII | |
| 52 | character sets are different. Perl builtin functions that may behave | |
| 53 | differently under EBCDIC are mentioned in the perlport.pod document. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | OpenEdition (UNIX System Services) does not (yet) support the #! means | |
| 56 | of script invokation. | |
| 57 | See: | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | head `whence perldoc` | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | for an example of how to use the "eval exec" trick to ask the shell to | |
| 62 | have perl run your scripts for you. | |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | perl-mvs mailing list: The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) | |
| 65 | maintains a mailing list of interest to all folks building and/or | |
| 66 | using perl on EBCDIC platforms. To subscibe, send a message of: | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | subscribe perl-mvs | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | to majordomo@perl.org. | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | Regression tests: as the 5.005 kit was was being assembled | |
| 73 | the following "failures" were known to appear on some machines | |
| 74 | during `make test` (mostly due to ASCII vs. EBCDIC conflicts), | |
| 75 | your results may differ: | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | comp/cpp..........FAILED at test 0 | |
| 78 | op/pack...........FAILED at test 58 | |
| 79 | op/stat...........Out of memory! | |
| 80 | op/taint..........FAILED at test 73 | |
| 81 | lib/errno.........FAILED at test 1 | |
| 82 | lib/posix.........FAILED at test 19 | |
| 83 | lib/searchdict....FAILED at test 1 |