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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. |
2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially | |
3 | designed to be readable as is. | |
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5 | =head1 NAME | |
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d66be8f9 | 7 | README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems |
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8 | |
9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
10 | ||
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11 | This document describes various features of HP's Unix operating system |
12 | (HP-UX) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is | |
13 | compiled and/or runs. | |
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15 | =head2 Using perl as shipped with HP-UX |
16 | ||
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17 | Application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is the first to ship |
18 | with Perl. By the time it was perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first | |
19 | occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and can be installed using | |
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22 | |
23 | assuming you have mounted that CD on /cdrom. In this version the | |
7cd31a2a | 24 | following modules were installed: |
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26 | ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04 HTML::Parser-3.19 XML::DOM-1.25 |
27 | Archive::Tar-0.072 HTML::Tagset-3.03 XML::Parser-2.27 | |
28 | Compress::Zlib-1.08 MIME::Base64-2.11 XML::Simple-1.05 | |
29 | Convert::ASN1-0.10 Net-1.07 XML::XPath-1.09 | |
30 | Digest::MD5-2.11 PPM-2.1.5 XML::XSLT-0.32 | |
31 | File::CounterFile-0.12 SOAP::Lite-0.46 libwww-perl-5.51 | |
32 | Font::AFM-1.18 Storable-1.011 libxml-perl-0.07 | |
33 | HTML-Tree-3.11 URI-1.11 perl-ldap-0.23 | |
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7cd31a2a | 35 | The build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large |
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36 | files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112 |
37 | ||
38 | If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed | |
39 | automatically. | |
40 | ||
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41 | More recent (preinstalled) HP-UX systems have more recent versions of |
42 | Perl and the updated modules. | |
43 | ||
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44 | =head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre |
45 | ||
46 | HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and | |
47 | release updates from the Open Source community. Having precompiled | |
48 | Perl binaries available is obvious. | |
49 | ||
50 | The HP porting centres are limited in what systems they are allowed | |
51 | to port to and they usually choose the two most recent OS versions | |
52 | available. This means that at the moment of writing, there are only | |
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53 | HP-UX 11.11 (pa-risc 2.0) and HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) ports available |
54 | on the porting centres. | |
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55 | |
56 | HP has asked the porting centre to move Open Source binaries | |
57 | from /opt to /usr/local, so binaries produced since the start | |
58 | of July 2002 are located in /usr/local. | |
59 | ||
60 | One of HP porting centres URL's is http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ | |
61 | The port currently available is built with GNU gcc. | |
62 | ||
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63 | =head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX |
64 | ||
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65 | When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. The C compiler |
66 | that ships with all HP-UX systems is a K&R compiler that should only be | |
67 | used to build new kernels. | |
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68 | |
69 | Perl can be compiled with either HP's ANSI C compiler or with gcc. The | |
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70 | former is recommended, as not only can it compile Perl with no |
71 | difficulty, but also can take advantage of features listed later that | |
72 | require the use of HP compiler-specific command-line flags. | |
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60ed1d8c | 74 | If you decide to use gcc, make sure your installation is recent and |
b48c3bfb | 75 | complete, and be sure to read the Perl INSTALL file for more gcc-specific |
60ed1d8c | 76 | details. |
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77 | |
78 | =head2 PA-RISC | |
79 | ||
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80 | HP's current Unix systems run on its own Precision Architecture |
81 | (PA-RISC) chip. HP-UX used to run on the Motorola MC68000 family of | |
82 | chips, but any machine with this chip in it is quite obsolete and this | |
83 | document will not attempt to address issues for compiling Perl on the | |
84 | Motorola chipset. | |
f2a260d6 | 85 | |
60ed1d8c | 86 | The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last |
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87 | update is 2.0. HP PA-RISC systems are usually refered to with model |
88 | description "HP 9000". | |
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90 | A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file |
91 | /usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last | |
92 | part of the output of the "model" command. The second column is the | |
93 | PA-RISC version and the third column is the exact chip type used. | |
94 | (Start browsing at the bottom to prevent confusion ;-) | |
95 | ||
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96 | # model |
97 | 9000/800/L1000-44 | |
98 | # grep L1000-44 /usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models | |
99 | L1000-44 2.0 PA8500 | |
100 | ||
101 | =head2 Portability Between PA-RISC Versions | |
102 | ||
103 | An executable compiled on a PA-RISC 2.0 platform will not execute on a | |
104 | PA-RISC 1.1 platform, even if they are running the same version of | |
105 | HP-UX. If you are building Perl on a PA-RISC 2.0 platform and want that | |
106 | Perl to also run on a PA-RISC 1.1, the compiler flags +DAportable and | |
107 | +DS32 should be used. | |
108 | ||
109 | It is no longer possible to compile PA-RISC 1.0 executables on either | |
110 | the PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 platforms. The command-line flags are accepted, | |
111 | but the resulting executable will not run when transferred to a PA-RISC | |
112 | 1.0 system. | |
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114 | =head2 PA-RISC 1.0 |
115 | ||
116 | The original version of PA-RISC, HP no longer sells any system with this chip. | |
117 | ||
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120 | 600, 635, 645, 808, 815, 822, 825, 832, 834, 835, 840, 842, 845, 850, |
121 | 852, 855, 860, 865, 870, 890 | |
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122 | |
123 | =head2 PA-RISC 1.1 | |
124 | ||
125 | An upgrade to the PA-RISC design, it shipped for many years in many different | |
126 | system. | |
127 | ||
128 | The following systems contain with PA-RISC 1.1 chips: | |
129 | ||
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130 | 705, 710, 712, 715, 720, 722, 725, 728, 730, 735, 742, 743, 744, 745, |
131 | 747, 750, 755, 770, 777, 778, 779, 800, 801, 803, 806, 807, 809, 811, | |
132 | 813, 816, 817, 819, 821, 826, 827, 829, 831, 837, 839, 841, 847, 849, | |
133 | 851, 856, 857, 859, 867, 869, 877, 887, 891, 892, 897, A180, A180C, | |
134 | B115, B120, B132L, B132L+, B160L, B180L, C100, C110, C115, C120, | |
135 | C160L, D200, D210, D220, D230, D250, D260, D310, D320, D330, D350, | |
136 | D360, D410, DX0, DX5, DXO, E25, E35, E45, E55, F10, F20, F30, G30, | |
137 | G40, G50, G60, G70, H20, H30, H40, H50, H60, H70, I30, I40, I50, I60, | |
138 | I70, J200, J210, J210XC, K100, K200, K210, K220, K230, K400, K410, | |
139 | K420, S700i, S715, S744, S760, T500, T520 | |
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140 | |
141 | =head2 PA-RISC 2.0 | |
142 | ||
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143 | The most recent upgrade to the PA-RISC design, it added support for |
144 | 64-bit integer data. | |
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60ed1d8c | 146 | As of the date of this document's last update, the following systems |
d464cda8 | 147 | contain PA-RISC 2.0 chips: |
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149 | 700, 780, 781, 782, 783, 785, 802, 804, 810, 820, 861, 871, 879, 889, |
150 | 893, 895, 896, 898, 899, A400, A500, B1000, B2000, C130, C140, C160, | |
151 | C180, C180+, C180-XP, C200+, C400+, C3000, C360, C3600, CB260, D270, | |
152 | D280, D370, D380, D390, D650, J220, J2240, J280, J282, J400, J410, | |
153 | J5000, J5500XM, J5600, J7000, J7600, K250, K260, K260-EG, K270, K360, | |
154 | K370, K380, K450, K460, K460-EG, K460-XP, K470, K570, K580, L1000, | |
155 | L2000, L3000, N4000, R380, R390, SD16000, SD32000, SD64000, T540, | |
156 | T600, V2000, V2200, V2250, V2500, V2600 | |
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158 | Just before HP took over Compaq, some systems were renamed. the link |
159 | that contained the explanation is dead, so here's a short summary: | |
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161 | HP 9000 A-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp2400 series. |
162 | HP 9000 L-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp5400 series. | |
163 | HP 9000 N-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp7400. | |
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165 | rp2400, rp2405, rp2430, rp2450, rp2470, rp3410, rp3440, rp4410, |
166 | rp4440, rp5400, rp5405, rp5430, rp5450, rp5470, rp7400, rp7405, | |
167 | rp7410, rp7420, rp8400, rp8420, Superdome | |
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168 | |
169 | The current naming convention is: | |
170 | ||
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171 | aadddd |
172 | ||||`+- 00 - 99 relative capacity & newness (upgrades, etc.) | |
173 | |||`--- unique number for each architecture to ensure different | |
174 | ||| systems do not have the same numbering across | |
175 | ||| architectures | |
176 | ||`---- 1 - 9 identifies family and/or relative positioning | |
177 | || | |
178 | |`----- c = ia32 (cisc) | |
179 | | p = pa-risc | |
180 | | x = ia-64 (Itanium & Itanium 2) | |
181 | | h = housing | |
182 | `------ t = tower | |
183 | r = rack optimized | |
184 | s = super scalable | |
185 | b = blade | |
186 | sa = appliance | |
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189 | |
190 | HP-UX also runs on the new Itanium processor. This requires the use | |
7cd31a2a | 191 | of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v2), and with |
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192 | the exception of a few differences detailed below and in later sections, |
193 | Perl should compile with no problems. | |
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194 | |
195 | Although PA-RISC binaries can run on Itanium systems, you should not | |
196 | attempt to use a PA-RISC version of Perl on an Itanium system. This is | |
197 | because shared libraries created on an Itanium system cannot be loaded | |
198 | while running a PA-RISC executable. | |
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200 | HP Itanium 2 systems are usually refered to with model description |
201 | "HP Integrity". | |
202 | ||
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203 | =head2 Itanium & Itanium 2 |
204 | ||
205 | HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the | |
206 | date of this document's last update, the following systems contain | |
207 | Itanium or Itanium 2 chips (this is very likely to be out of date): | |
208 | ||
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209 | BL60p, rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx2600hptc, rx2620, rx4610, rx4640, |
210 | rx5670, rx7620, rx8620, rx9610 | |
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211 | |
212 | To see all about your machine, type | |
213 | ||
214 | # model | |
215 | ia64 hp server rx2600 | |
216 | # /usr/contrib/bin/machinfo | |
217 | ||
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218 | =head2 Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX |
219 | ||
220 | HP-UX supports dynamically loadable libraries (shared libraries). | |
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221 | Shared libraries end with the suffix .sl. On Itanium systems, |
222 | they end with the suffix .so. | |
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224 | Shared libraries created on a platform using a particular PA-RISC |
225 | version are not usable on platforms using an earlier PA-RISC version by | |
226 | default. However, this backwards compatibility may be enabled using the | |
227 | same +DAportable compiler flag (with the same PA-RISC 1.0 caveat | |
228 | mentioned above). | |
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230 | Shared libraries created on an Itanium platform cannot be loaded on |
231 | a PA-RISC platform. Shared libraries created on a PA-RISC platform | |
232 | can only be loaded on an Itanium platform if it is a PA-RISC executable | |
233 | that is attempting to load the PA-RISC library. A PA-RISC shared | |
234 | library cannot be loaded into an Itanium executable nor vice-versa. | |
235 | ||
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236 | To create a shared library, the following steps must be performed: |
237 | ||
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238 | 1. Compile source modules with +z or +Z flag to create a .o module |
239 | which contains Position-Independent Code (PIC). The linker will | |
240 | tell you in the next step if +Z was needed. | |
241 | (For gcc, the appropriate flag is -fpic or -fPIC.) | |
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243 | 2. Link the shared library using the -b flag. If the code calls |
244 | any functions in other system libraries (e.g., libm), it must | |
245 | be included on this line. | |
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246 | |
247 | (Note that these steps are usually handled automatically by the extension's | |
248 | Makefile). | |
249 | ||
250 | If these dependent libraries are not listed at shared library creation | |
251 | time, you will get fatal "Unresolved symbol" errors at run time when the | |
252 | library is loaded. | |
253 | ||
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255 | may be either an archive library or a shared library. If this second |
256 | library is a shared library, this is called a "dependent library". The | |
257 | dependent library's name is recorded in the main shared library, but it | |
258 | is not linked into the shared library. Instead, it is loaded when the | |
259 | main shared library is loaded. This can cause problems if you build an | |
260 | extension on one system and move it to another system where the | |
261 | libraries may not be located in the same place as on the first system. | |
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262 | |
263 | If the referred library is an archive library, then it is treated as a | |
264 | simple collection of .o modules (all of which must contain PIC). These | |
265 | modules are then linked into the shared library. | |
266 | ||
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267 | Note that it is okay to create a library which contains a dependent |
268 | library that is already linked into perl. | |
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270 | Some extensions, like DB_File and Compress::Zlib use/require prebuilt |
271 | libraries for the perl extensions/modules to work. If these libraries | |
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272 | are built using the default configuration, it might happen that you |
273 | run into an error like "invalid loader fixup" during load phase. | |
274 | HP is aware of this problem. Search the HP-UX cxx-dev forums for | |
275 | discussions about the subject. The short answer is that B<everything> | |
276 | (all libraries, everything) must be compiled with C<+z> or C<+Z> to be | |
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277 | PIC (position independent code). (For gcc, that would be |
278 | C<-fpic> or C<-fPIC>). In HP-UX 11.00 or newer the linker | |
3853ea39 | 279 | error message should tell the name of the offending object file. |
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280 | |
281 | A more general approach is to intervene manually, as with an example for | |
282 | the DB_File module, which requires SleepyCat's libdb.sl: | |
283 | ||
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284 | # cd .../db-3.2.9/build_unix |
285 | # vi Makefile | |
286 | ... add +Z to all cflags to create shared objects | |
287 | CFLAGS= -c $(CPPFLAGS) +Z -Ae +O2 +Onolimit \ | |
288 | -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6 | |
289 | CXXFLAGS= -c $(CPPFLAGS) +Z -Ae +O2 +Onolimit \ | |
290 | -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6 | |
291 | ||
292 | # make clean | |
293 | # make | |
294 | # mkdir tmp | |
295 | # cd tmp | |
296 | # ar x ../libdb.a | |
297 | # ld -b -o libdb-3.2.sl *.o | |
298 | # mv libdb-3.2.sl /usr/local/lib | |
299 | # rm *.o | |
300 | # cd /usr/local/lib | |
301 | # rm -f libdb.sl | |
302 | # ln -s libdb-3.2.sl libdb.sl | |
303 | ||
304 | # cd .../DB_File-1.76 | |
305 | # make distclean | |
306 | # perl Makefile.PL | |
307 | # make | |
308 | # make test | |
309 | # make install | |
310 | ||
311 | As of db-4.2.x it is no longer needed to do this by hand. Sleepycat | |
312 | has changed the configuration process to add +z on HP-UX automatically. | |
313 | ||
314 | # cd .../db-4.2.25/build_unix | |
315 | # env CFLAGS=+DA2.0w LDFLAGS=+DA2.0w ../dist/configure | |
316 | ||
317 | should work to generate 64bit shared libraries for HP-UX 11.00 and 11i. | |
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319 | It is no longer possible to link PA-RISC 1.0 shared libraries (even |
320 | though the command-line flags are still present). | |
321 | ||
322 | PA-RISC and Itanium object files are not interchangeable. Although | |
323 | you may be able to use ar to create an archive library of PA-RISC | |
324 | object files on an Itanium system, you cannot link against it using | |
325 | an Itanium link editor. | |
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326 | |
327 | =head2 The HP ANSI C Compiler | |
328 | ||
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329 | When using this compiler to build Perl, you should make sure that the |
330 | flag -Aa is added to the cpprun and cppstdin variables in the config.sh | |
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331 | file (though see the section on 64-bit perl below). If you are using a |
332 | recent version of the Perl distribution, these flags are set automatically. | |
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334 | =head2 The GNU C Compiler |
335 | ||
336 | When you are going to use the GNU C compiler (gcc), and you don't have | |
337 | gcc yet, you can either build it yourself from the sources (available | |
338 | from e.g. http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/gcc/releases.html) or fetch | |
339 | a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center. There are two places where | |
3a1825b5 | 340 | gcc prebuilds can be fetched; the first and best (for HP-UX 11 only) is |
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341 | http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,547,00.html |
342 | the second is http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/ where you can also | |
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343 | find the GNU binutils package. (Browse through the list, because there |
344 | are often multiple versions of the same package available). | |
2be3a552 | 345 | |
8df8c42b | 346 | Above mentioned distributions are depots. H.Merijn Brand has made prebuilt |
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347 | gcc binaries available on http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ and/or |
348 | http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ for HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00, and HP-UX 11.11 | |
349 | (HP-UX 11i) in both 32- and 64-bit versions. These are bzipped tar archives | |
350 | that also include recent GNU binutils and GNU gdb. Read the instructions | |
351 | on that page to rebuild gcc using itself. | |
352 | ||
353 | On PA-RISC you need a different compiler for 32-bit applications and for | |
354 | 64-bit applications. On PA-RISC, 32-bit objects and 64-bit objects do | |
fb1ee0ec | 355 | not mix. Period. There is no different behaviour for HP C-ANSI-C or GNU |
b20ef1a8 | 356 | gcc. So if you require your perl binary to use 64-bit libraries, like |
1d69df2b | 357 | Oracle-64bit, you MUST build a 64-bit perl. |
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359 | Building a 64-bit capable gcc on PA-RISC from source is possible only when |
360 | you have the HP C-ANSI C compiler or an already working 64-bit binary of | |
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361 | gcc available. Best performance for perl is achieved with HP's native |
362 | compiler. | |
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f2a260d6 | 365 | |
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366 | Beginning with HP-UX version 10.20, files larger than 2GB (2^31 bytes) |
367 | may be created and manipulated. Three separate methods of doing this | |
368 | are available. Of these methods, the best method for Perl is to compile | |
369 | using the -Duselargefiles flag to Configure. This causes Perl to be | |
370 | compiled using structures and functions in which these are 64 bits wide, | |
371 | rather than 32 bits wide. (Note that this will only work with HP's ANSI | |
372 | C compiler. If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get | |
aca48073 | 373 | a version of the compiler that supports 64-bit operations. See above for |
f3e4a94e | 374 | where to find it.) |
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375 | |
376 | There are some drawbacks to this approach. One is that any extension | |
377 | which calls any file-manipulating C function will need to be recompiled | |
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378 | (just follow the usual "perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install" |
379 | procedure). | |
60ed1d8c | 380 | |
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381 | The list of functions that will need to recompiled is: |
382 | creat, fgetpos, fopen, | |
383 | freopen, fsetpos, fstat, | |
384 | fstatvfs, fstatvfsdev, ftruncate, | |
385 | ftw, lockf, lseek, | |
386 | lstat, mmap, nftw, | |
387 | open, prealloc, stat, | |
388 | statvfs, statvfsdev, tmpfile, | |
389 | truncate, getrlimit, setrlimit | |
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391 | Another drawback is only valid for Perl versions before 5.6.0. This |
392 | drawback is that the seek and tell functions (both the builtin version | |
393 | and POSIX module version) will not perform correctly. | |
394 | ||
395 | It is strongly recommended that you use this flag when you run | |
396 | Configure. If you do not do this, but later answer the question about | |
397 | large files when Configure asks you, you may get a configuration that | |
398 | cannot be compiled, or that does not function as expected. | |
399 | ||
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402 | It is possible to compile a version of threaded Perl on any version of |
403 | HP-UX before 10.30, but it is strongly suggested that you be running on | |
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404 | HP-UX 11.00 at least. |
405 | ||
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406 | To compile Perl with threads, add -Dusethreads to the arguments of |
407 | Configure. Verify that the -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L compiler flag is | |
408 | automatically added to the list of flags. Also make sure that -lpthread | |
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409 | is listed before -lc in the list of libraries to link Perl with. The |
410 | hints provided for HP-UX during Configure will try very hard to get | |
411 | this right for you. | |
f2a260d6 | 412 | |
210b36aa | 413 | HP-UX versions before 10.30 require a separate installation of a POSIX |
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414 | threads library package. Two examples are the HP DCE package, available |
415 | on "HP-UX Hardware Extensions 3.0, Install and Core OS, Release 10.20, | |
416 | April 1999 (B3920-13941)" or the Freely available PTH package, available | |
2d99a181 | 417 | on H.Merijn's site (http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/). |
c7d9b096 | 418 | |
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419 | If you are going to use the HP DCE package, the library used for threading |
420 | is /usr/lib/libcma.sl, but there have been multiple updates of that | |
421 | library over time. Perl will build with the first version, but it | |
422 | will not pass the test suite. Older Oracle versions might be a compelling | |
8e4bcd96 | 423 | reason not to update that library, otherwise please find a newer version |
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424 | in one of the following patches: PHSS_19739, PHSS_20608, or PHSS_23672 |
425 | ||
426 | reformatted output: | |
427 | ||
428 | d3:/usr/lib 106 > what libcma-*.1 | |
429 | libcma-00000.1: | |
430 | HP DCE/9000 1.5 Module: libcma.sl (Export) | |
431 | Date: Apr 29 1996 22:11:24 | |
432 | libcma-19739.1: | |
433 | HP DCE/9000 1.5 PHSS_19739-40 Module: libcma.sl (Export) | |
434 | Date: Sep 4 1999 01:59:07 | |
435 | libcma-20608.1: | |
436 | HP DCE/9000 1.5 PHSS_20608 Module: libcma.1 (Export) | |
437 | Date: Dec 8 1999 18:41:23 | |
438 | libcma-23672.1: | |
439 | HP DCE/9000 1.5 PHSS_23672 Module: libcma.1 (Export) | |
440 | Date: Apr 9 2001 10:01:06 | |
441 | d3:/usr/lib 107 > | |
442 | ||
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443 | If you choose for the PTH package, use swinstall to install pth in |
444 | the default location (/opt/pth), and then make symbolic links to the | |
445 | libraries from /usr/lib | |
446 | ||
447 | # cd /usr/lib | |
448 | # ln -s /opt/pth/lib/libpth* . | |
449 | ||
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450 | For building perl to support Oracle, it needs to be linked with libcl |
451 | and libpthread. So even if your perl is an unthreaded build, these | |
452 | libraries might be required. See "Oracle on HP-UX" below. | |
fa01be49 | 453 | |
a83b6f46 | 454 | =head2 64-bit Perl on HP-UX |
f2a260d6 | 455 | |
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456 | Beginning with HP-UX 11.00, programs compiled under HP-UX can take |
457 | advantage of the LP64 programming environment (LP64 means Longs and | |
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458 | Pointers are 64 bits wide), in which scalar variables will be able |
459 | to hold numbers larger than 2^32 with complete precision. Perl has | |
460 | proven to be consistent and reliable in 64bit mode since 5.8.1 on | |
461 | all HP-UX 11.xx. | |
f2a260d6 | 462 | |
70dff5ba | 463 | As of the date of this document, Perl is fully 64-bit compliant on |
b20ef1a8 | 464 | HP-UX 11.00 and up for both cc- and gcc builds. If you are about to |
1d69df2b | 465 | build a 64-bit perl with GNU gcc, please read the gcc section carefully. |
f2a260d6 | 466 | |
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467 | Should a user have the need for compiling Perl in the LP64 environment, |
468 | use the -Duse64bitall flag to Configure. This will force Perl to be | |
469 | compiled in a pure LP64 environment (with the +DD64 flag for HP C-ANSI-C, | |
470 | with no additional options for GNU gcc 64-bit on PA-RISC, and with | |
471 | -mlp64 for GNU gcc on Itanium). | |
b20ef1a8 | 472 | If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a version of |
aca48073 | 473 | the compiler that supports 64-bit operations.) |
f74a9bd3 | 474 | |
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475 | You can also use the -Duse64bitint flag to Configure. Although there |
476 | are some minor differences between compiling Perl with this flag versus | |
477 | the -Duse64bitall flag, they should not be noticeable from a Perl user's | |
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478 | perspective. When configuring -Duse64bitint using a 64bit gcc on a |
479 | pa-risc architecture, -Duse64bitint is silently promoted to -Duse64bitall. | |
f74a9bd3 | 480 | |
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481 | In both cases, it is strongly recommended that you use these flags when |
482 | you run Configure. If you do not use do this, but later answer the | |
483 | questions about 64-bit numbers when Configure asks you, you may get a | |
484 | configuration that cannot be compiled, or that does not function as | |
485 | expected. | |
f74a9bd3 | 486 | |
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487 | =head2 Oracle on HP-UX |
488 | ||
489 | Using perl to connect to Oracle databases through DBI and DBD::Oracle | |
490 | has caused a lot of people many headaches. Read README.hpux in the | |
491 | DBD::Oracle for much more information. The reason to mention it here | |
492 | is that Oracle requires a perl built with libcl and libpthread, the | |
493 | latter even when perl is build without threads. Building perl using | |
494 | all defaults, but still enabling to build DBD::Oracle later on can be | |
495 | achieved using | |
496 | ||
497 | Configure -A prepend:libswanted='cl pthread ' ... | |
498 | ||
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499 | Do not forget the space before the trailing quote. |
500 | ||
501 | Also note that this does not (yet) work with all configurations, | |
1d69df2b | 502 | it is known to fail with 64-bit versions of GCC. |
5df8692c | 503 | |
a83b6f46 | 504 | =head2 GDBM and Threads on HP-UX |
d66be8f9 | 505 | |
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506 | If you attempt to compile Perl with threads on an 11.X system and also |
507 | link in the GDBM library, then Perl will immediately core dump when it | |
508 | starts up. The only workaround at this point is to relink the GDBM | |
509 | library under 11.X, then relink it into Perl. | |
d66be8f9 | 510 | |
a83b6f46 | 511 | =head2 NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX |
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512 | |
513 | If you are compiling Perl on a remotely-mounted NFS filesystem, the test | |
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514 | io/fs.t may fail on test #18. This appears to be a bug in HP-UX and no |
515 | fix is currently available. | |
d66be8f9 | 516 | |
a83b6f46 | 517 | =head2 perl -P and // and HP-UX |
183968aa | 518 | |
b20ef1a8 | 519 | If HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the |
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520 | -P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before |
521 | perl sees it) is used. The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style | |
522 | until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder | |
523 | of the line. This means that common Perl constructs like | |
524 | ||
af8e01f2 | 525 | s/foo//; |
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526 | |
527 | will turn into illegal code | |
528 | ||
af8e01f2 | 529 | s/foo |
183968aa | 530 | |
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531 | The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">, |
532 | like for example C<"!">: | |
183968aa | 533 | |
af8e01f2 | 534 | s!foo!!; |
183968aa | 535 | |
a83b6f46 | 536 | =head2 HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl |
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537 | |
538 | By default, HP-UX comes configured with a maximum data segment size of | |
539 | 64MB. This is too small to correctly compile Perl with the maximum | |
540 | optimization levels. You can increase the size of the maxdsiz kernel | |
541 | parameter through the use of SAM. | |
542 | ||
543 | When using the GUI version of SAM, click on the Kernel Configuration | |
544 | icon, then the Configurable Parameters icon. Scroll down and select | |
545 | the maxdsiz line. From the Actions menu, select the Modify Configurable | |
546 | Parameter item. Insert the new formula into the Formula/Value box. | |
547 | Then follow the instructions to rebuild your kernel and reboot your | |
548 | system. | |
549 | ||
550 | In general, a value of 256MB (or "256*1024*1024") is sufficient for | |
551 | Perl to compile at maximum optimization. | |
552 | ||
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553 | =head1 nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent |
554 | ||
555 | You may get a bus error core dump from the op/pwent or op/grent | |
556 | tests. If compiled with -g you will see a stack trace much like | |
557 | the following: | |
558 | ||
559 | #0 0xc004216c in () from /usr/lib/libc.2 | |
560 | #1 0xc00d7550 in __nss_src_state_destr () from /usr/lib/libc.2 | |
561 | #2 0xc00d7768 in __nss_src_state_destr () from /usr/lib/libc.2 | |
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562 | #3 0xc00d78a8 in nss_delete () from /usr/lib/libc.2 |
563 | #4 0xc01126d8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.2 | |
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564 | #5 0xd1950 in Perl_pp_epwent () from ./perl |
565 | #6 0x94d3c in Perl_runops_standard () from ./perl | |
566 | #7 0x23728 in S_run_body () from ./perl | |
567 | #8 0x23428 in perl_run () from ./perl | |
568 | #9 0x2005c in main () from ./perl | |
569 | ||
570 | The key here is the C<nss_delete> call. One workaround for this | |
571 | bug seems to be to create add to the file F</etc/nsswitch.conf> | |
572 | (at least) the following lines | |
573 | ||
48529397 | 574 | group: files |
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575 | passwd: files |
576 | ||
577 | Whether you are using NIS does not matter. Amazingly enough, | |
3a1825b5 | 578 | the same bug also affects Solaris. |
1081c3b9 | 579 | |
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580 | =head1 AUTHOR |
581 | ||
582 | Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com> | |
3bd76f0a | 583 | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> |
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584 | |
585 | With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella. | |
586 | ||
587 | =head1 DATE | |
588 | ||
b204bbd5 | 589 | Version 0.7.6: 2005-12-20 |
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590 | |
591 | =cut |