This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl
on OS/390 (aka z/OS) Unix System Services.
+B<This document needs to be updated, but we don't know what it should say.
+Please email comments to L<perlbug@perl.org|mailto:perlbug@perl.org>.>
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is a fully ported Perl for OS/390 Version 2 Release 3, 5, 6, 7,
The z/OS Unix Tools and Toys list may prove helpful and contains links
to ports of much of the software helpful for building Perl.
-http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
+L<http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html>
=head2 Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
If you get lots of errors of the form
- tar: FSUM7171 ...: cannot set uid/gid: EDC5139I Operation not permitted.
+ tar: FSUM7171 ...: cannot set uid/gid: EDC5139I Operation not permitted
you didn't read the above and tried to use tar instead of pax, you'll
first have to remove the (now corrupt) perl directory
A message of the form:
- (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure,
- mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does, try the Bourne shell instead.)
+ (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on
+ Configure, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does, try the
+ Bourne shell instead.)
is nothing to worry about at all.
Some of the parser default template files in /samples are needed in /etc.
In particular be sure that you at least copy /samples/yyparse.c to /etc
before running Perl's Configure. This step ensures successful extraction
-of EBCDIC versions of parser files such as perly.c, perly.h, and x2p/a2p.c.
+of EBCDIC versions of parser files such as perly.c and perly.h.
This has to be done before running Configure the first time. If you failed
to do so then the easiest way to re-Configure Perl is to delete your
misconfigured build root and re-extract the source from the tar ball.
If in trying to use Perl you see an error message similar to:
CEE3501S The module libperl.dll was not found.
- From entry point __dllstaticinit at compile unit offset +00000194 at
+ From entry point __dllstaticinit at compile unit offset +00000194
+ at
then your LIBPATH does not have the location of libperl.x and either
libperl.dll or libperl.so in it. Add that directory to your LIBPATH and
A message of the form:
- lib/ftmp-security....File::Temp::_gettemp: Parent directory (/tmp/) is not safe
- (sticky bit not set when world writable?) at lib/ftmp-security.t line 100
- File::Temp::_gettemp: Parent directory (/tmp/) is not safe (sticky bit not
- set when world writable?) at lib/ftmp-security.t line 100
+ lib/ftmp-security....File::Temp::_gettemp: Parent directory (/tmp/)
+ is not safe (sticky bit not set when world writable?) at
+ lib/ftmp-security.t line 100
+ File::Temp::_gettemp: Parent directory (/tmp/) is not safe (sticky
+ bit not set when world writable?) at lib/ftmp-security.t line 100
ok
indicates a problem with the permissions on your /tmp directory within the HFS.
L<INSTALL>, L<perlport>, L<perlebcdic>, L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>.
- http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
+ http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
- http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245944.html
+ http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245944.html
- http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html#opensrc
+ http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html#opensrc
- http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl-mvs/
+ http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl-mvs/
- http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea3030/
+ http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea3030/
- http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CBCUG030/
+ http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CBCUG030/
=head2 Mailing list for Perl on OS/390