=head1 NAME
-README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS
+perlos390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS
=head1 SYNOPSIS
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-1.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
Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at:
- http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/faq/bpxqp1.html
+ http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html
to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this:
pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar
+or
+
+ zcat latest.tar.Z | pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r
+
If you get lots of errors of the form
- tar: FSUM7171 ...: cannot set uid/gid: EDC5139I Operation not permitted.
- tar: FSUM7148 cannot create file "...": EDC5111I Permission denied.
+ 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
_C89_CCMODE=1 is also a good idea for users of GNU make).
You might also want to have GNU groff for OS/390 installed before
-running the `make install` step for Perl.
+running the "make install" step for Perl.
There is a syntax error in the /usr/include/sys/socket.h header file
that IBM supplies with USS V2R7, V2R8, and possibly V2R9. The problem with
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
=head2 Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
-The `make test` step runs a Perl Verification Procedure, usually before
+The "make test" step runs a Perl Verification Procedure, usually before
installation. You might encounter STDERR messages even during a successful
-run of `make test`. Here is a guide to some of the more commonly seen
+run of "make test". Here is a guide to some of the more commonly seen
anomalies:
=over 4
A message of the form:
- comp/cpp.............ERROR CBC3191 ./.301989890.c:1 The character $ is not a
- valid C source character.
- FSUM3065 The COMPILE step ended with return code 12.
- FSUM3017 Could not compile .301989890.c. Correct the errors and try again.
- ok
-
-indicates that the t/comp/cpp.t test of Perl's -P command line switch has
-passed but that the particular invocation of c89 -E in the cpp script does
-not suppress the C compiler check of source code validity.
-
-=item *
-
-A message of the form:
-
io/openpid...........CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
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.
Out of Memory!
-Recent perl test suite is quite memory hunrgy. In addition to the comments
+Recent perl test suite is quite memory hungry. In addition to the comments
above on memory limitations it is also worth checking for _CEE_RUNOPTS
in your environment. Perl now has (in miniperlmain.c) a C #pragma
to set CEE run options, but the environment variable wins.
L<INSTALL>, L<perlport>, L<perlebcdic>, L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>.
- http://www-1.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/abstracts/sg245944.html
+ http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245944.html
- http://www-1.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
-The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) maintains a perl-mvs
-mailing list of interest to all folks building and/or
-using perl on all EBCDIC platforms (not just OS/390).
-To subscribe, send a message of:
-
- subscribe perl-mvs
+If you are interested in the z/OS (formerly known as OS/390)
+and POSIX-BC (BS2000) ports of Perl then see the perl-mvs mailing list.
+To subscribe, send an empty message to perl-mvs-subscribe@perl.org.
-to majordomo@perl.org. See also:
+See also:
- http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-mvs
+ https://lists.perl.org/list/perl-mvs.html
There are web archives of the mailing list at:
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