-To obtain a non-IEEE build on Alpha, simply answer no to the "Use IEEE math?"
-question during the configuration. To obtain an option different from the C
-compiler default on either VAX or Alpha, put in the option that you want in
-answer to the "Any additional cc flags?" question. For example, to obtain a
-G_FLOAT build on VAX, put in C</FLOAT=G_FLOAT>.
-
-=head2 Multinet issues with Perl on VMS
-
-Prior to the release of Perl 5.8.0 it was noted that the regression
-test for lib/Net/hostent (in file [.lib.Net]hostent.t) will fail owing
-to problems with the hostent structure returned by C calls to either
-gethostbyname() or gethostbyaddr() using DEC or Compaq C with a
-Multinet TCP/IP stack. The problem was noted in Multinet 4.3A
-using either Compaq C 6.5 or DEC C 6.0, and with Multinet 4.2A
-using DEC C 5.2, but could easily affect other versions of Multinet.
-Process Software Inc. has acknowledged a bug in the Multinet version
-of UCX$IPC_SHR and has provided an ECO for it. The ECO is called
-UCX_LIBRARY_EMULATION-010_A044 and is available from:
-
- http://www.multinet.process.com/eco.html
-
-As of this writing, the ECO is only available for Multinet versions
-4.3A and later. You may determine the version of Multinet that you
-are running using the command:
-
- multinet show /version
-
-from the DCL command prompt.
-
-If the ECO is unavailable for your version of Multinet and you are
-unable to upgrade, you might try using Perl programming constructs
-such as:
-
- $address = substr($gethostbyname_addr,0,4);
-
-to temporarily work around the problem, or if you are brave
-and do not mind the possibility of breaking IPv6 addresses,
-you might modify the pp_sys.c file to add an ad-hoc correction
-like so:
-
-
- --- pp_sys.c;1 Thu May 30 14:42:17 2002
- +++ pp_sys.c Thu May 30 12:54:02 2002
- @@ -4684,6 +4684,10 @@
- }
- #endif
-
- + if (hent) {
- + hent->h_length = 4;
- + }
- +
- if (GIMME != G_ARRAY) {
- PUSHs(sv = sv_newmortal());
- if (hent) {
-
-then re-compile and re-test your perl. After the installation
-of the Multinet ECO you ought to back out any such changes though.
+To obtain a non-IEEE build on Alpha or Itanium, simply answer no to the
+"Use IEEE math?" question during the configuration. To obtain an option
+different from the C compiler default on any platform, put in the option that
+you want in answer to the "Any additional cc flags?" question. For example, to
+obtain a G_FLOAT build on VAX, put in C</FLOAT=G_FLOAT>.