Font::AFM-1.18 Storable-1.011 libxml-perl-0.07
HTML-Tree-3.11 URI-1.11 perl-ldap-0.23
-The build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
-files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
+That build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
+files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112.
-If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
-automatically.
+If you perform a new installation, then (a newer) Perl will be installed
+automatically. Preinstalled HP-UX systems now slao have more recent versions
+of Perl and the updated modules.
-More recent (preinstalled) HP-UX systems have more recent versions of
-Perl and the updated modules.
+The official (threaded) builds from HP, as they are shipped on the
+Application DVD/CD's are available on
+http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=PERL
+for both PA-RISC and IPF (Itanium Processor Family). They are built
+with the HP ANSI-C compiler by ActiveState.
+
+To see what version is included on the DVD (assumed here to be mounted
+on /cdrom), issue this command:
+
+ # swlist -s /cdrom perl
+ # perl D.5.8.8.B 5.8.8 Perl Programming Language
+ perl.Perl5-32 D.5.8.8.B 32-bit 5.8.8 Perl Programming Language with Extensions
+ perl.Perl5-64 D.5.8.8.B 64-bit 5.8.8 Perl Programming Language with Extensions
=head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
=head2 PA-RISC
-HP's current Unix systems run on its own Precision Architecture
+HP's HP9000 Unix systems run on HP's own Precision Architecture
(PA-RISC) chip. HP-UX used to run on the Motorola MC68000 family of
chips, but any machine with this chip in it is quite obsolete and this
document will not attempt to address issues for compiling Perl on the
Motorola chipset.
-The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last
-update is 2.0. HP PA-RISC systems are usually refered to with model
-description "HP 9000".
+The version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last update is 2.0,
+which is also the last there will be. HP PA-RISC systems are usually
+refered to with model description "HP 9000". The last CPU in this series
+is the PA-8900. Support for PA-RISC architectured machines officially
+ends as shown in the following table:
+
+ PA-RISC End-of-Life Roadmap
+ +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
+ | HP9000 | Superdome | PA-8700 | Spring 2011 |
+ | 4-128 | | PA-8800/sx1000 | Summer 2012 |
+ | cores | | PA-8900/sx1000 | 2014 |
+ | | | PA-8900/sx2000 | 2015 |
+ +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
+ | HP9000 | rp7410, rp8400 | PA-8700 | Spring 2011 |
+ | 2-32 | rp7420, rp8420 | PA-8800/sx1000 | 2012 |
+ | cores | rp7440, rp8440 | PA-8900/sx1000 | Autumn 2013 |
+ | | | PA-8900/sx2000 | 2015 |
+ +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
+ | HP9000 | rp44x0 | PA-8700 | Spring 2011 |
+ | 1-8 | | PA-8800/rp44x0 | 2012 |
+ | cores | | PA-8900/rp44x0 | 2014 |
+ +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
+ | HP9000 | rp34x0 | PA-8700 | Spring 2011 |
+ | 1-4 | | PA-8800/rp34x0 | 2012 |
+ | cores | | PA-8900/rp34x0 | 2014 |
+ +--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
+
+From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/eol_announcement.html:
+
+ The last order date for HP9000 PA-RISC systems is planned for
+ December 31, 2008 and ship date of April 1, 2009. Operating system
+ releases for HP-UX will continue shipping past the HP9000 systems
+ last order date.
A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file
/usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last
rp2400, rp2405, rp2430, rp2450, rp2470, rp3410, rp3440, rp4410,
rp4440, rp5400, rp5405, rp5430, rp5450, rp5470, rp7400, rp7405,
- rp7410, rp7420, rp8400, rp8420, Superdome
+ rp7410, rp7420, rp7440, rp8400, rp8420, rp8440, Superdome
The current naming convention is:
b = blade
sa = appliance
-=head2 Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
+=head2 Itanium Processor Family (IPF) and HP-UX
HP-UX also runs on the new Itanium processor. This requires the use
of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v2), and with
HP Itanium 2 systems are usually refered to with model description
"HP Integrity".
-=head2 Itanium & Itanium 2
+=head2 Itanium, Itanium 2 & Madison 6
-HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the
-date of this document's last update, the following systems contain
-Itanium or Itanium 2 chips (this is very likely to be out of date):
+HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). The cx26x0
+is told to have Madison 6. As of the date of this document's last update,
+the following systems contain Itanium or Itanium 2 chips (this is likely
+to be out of date):
- rx1600, rx1620, rx2600, rx2600hptc, rx2620, rx4610, rx4640, rx5670,
- rx7620, rx8620, rx9610
+ BL60p, BL860c, BL870c, cx2600, cx2620, rx1600, rx1620, rx2600,
+ rx2600hptc, rx2620, rx2660, rx3600, rx4610, rx4640, rx5670,
+ rx6600, rx7420, rx7620, rx7640, rx8420, rx8620, rx8640, rx9610,
+ sx1000, sx2000
To see all about your machine, type
ia64 hp server rx2600
# /usr/contrib/bin/machinfo
+=head2 HP-UX versions
+
+Not all architectures (PA = PA-RISC, IPF = Itanium Processor Family)
+support all versions of HP-UX, here is a short list
+
+ HP-UX version Kernel Architecture
+ ------------- ------ ------------
+ 10.20 32 bit PA
+ 11.00 32/64 PA
+ 11.11 11i v1 32/64 PA
+ 11.22 11i v2 64 IPF
+ 11.23 11i v2 64 PA & IPF
+ 11.31 11i v3 64 PA & IPF
+
+See for the full list of hardware/OS support and expected end-of-life
+http://www.hp.com/go/hpuxservermatrix
+
=head2 Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
HP-UX supports dynamically loadable libraries (shared libraries).
# vi Makefile
... add +Z to all cflags to create shared objects
CFLAGS= -c $(CPPFLAGS) +Z -Ae +O2 +Onolimit \
- -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6
+ -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6
CXXFLAGS= -c $(CPPFLAGS) +Z -Ae +O2 +Onolimit \
- -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6
+ -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/X11R6
# make clean
# make
has changed the configuration process to add +z on HP-UX automatically.
# cd .../db-4.2.25/build_unix
- # env CFLAGS=+DA2.0w LDFLAGS=+DA2.0w ../dist/configure
+ # env CFLAGS=+DD64 LDFLAGS=+DD64 ../dist/configure
should work to generate 64bit shared libraries for HP-UX 11.00 and 11i.
file (though see the section on 64-bit perl below). If you are using a
recent version of the Perl distribution, these flags are set automatically.
+Even though HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 are not actively maintained by HP
+anymore, updates for the HP ANSI C compiler are still available from
+time to time, and it might be advisable to see if updates are applicable.
+At the moment of writing, the latests available patches for 11.00 that
+should be applied are PHSS_35098, PHSS_35175, PHSS_35100, PHSS_33036,
+and PHSS_33902). If you have a SUM account, you can use it to search
+for updates/patches. Enter "ANSI" as keyword.
+
=head2 The GNU C Compiler
When you are going to use the GNU C compiler (gcc), and you don't have
Above mentioned distributions are depots. H.Merijn Brand has made prebuilt
gcc binaries available on http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ and/or
-http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ for HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00, and HP-UX 11.11
-(HP-UX 11i) in both 32- and 64-bit versions. These are bzipped tar archives
-that also include recent GNU binutils and GNU gdb. Read the instructions
-on that page to rebuild gcc using itself.
+http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ for HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00, HP-UX 11.11
+(HP-UX 11i v1), and HP-UX 11.23 (HP-UX 11i v2) in both 32- and 64-bit
+versions. These are bzipped tar archives that also include recent GNU
+binutils and GNU gdb. Read the instructions on that page to rebuild gcc
+using itself.
On PA-RISC you need a different compiler for 32-bit applications and for
64-bit applications. On PA-RISC, 32-bit objects and 64-bit objects do
-not mix. period. There is no different behaviour for HP C-ANSI-C or GNU
+not mix. Period. There is no different behaviour for HP C-ANSI-C or GNU
gcc. So if you require your perl binary to use 64-bit libraries, like
Oracle-64bit, you MUST build a 64-bit perl.
procedure).
The list of functions that will need to recompiled is:
-creat, fgetpos, fopen,
-freopen, fsetpos, fstat,
-fstatvfs, fstatvfsdev, ftruncate,
-ftw, lockf, lseek,
-lstat, mmap, nftw,
-open, prealloc, stat,
-statvfs, statvfsdev, tmpfile,
-truncate, getrlimit, setrlimit
+ creat, fgetpos, fopen,
+ freopen, fsetpos, fstat,
+ fstatvfs, fstatvfsdev, ftruncate,
+ ftw, lockf, lseek,
+ lstat, mmap, nftw,
+ open, prealloc, stat,
+ statvfs, statvfsdev, tmpfile,
+ truncate, getrlimit, setrlimit
Another drawback is only valid for Perl versions before 5.6.0. This
drawback is that the seek and tell functions (both the builtin version
Date: Apr 9 2001 10:01:06
d3:/usr/lib 107 >
+If you choose for the PTH package, use swinstall to install pth in
+the default location (/opt/pth), and then make symbolic links to the
+libraries from /usr/lib
+
+ # cd /usr/lib
+ # ln -s /opt/pth/lib/libpth* .
+
For building perl to support Oracle, it needs to be linked with libcl
and libpthread. So even if your perl is an unthreaded build, these
libraries might be required. See "Oracle on HP-UX" below.
Beginning with HP-UX 11.00, programs compiled under HP-UX can take
advantage of the LP64 programming environment (LP64 means Longs and
-Pointers are 64 bits wide).
-
-Work is being performed on Perl to make it 64-bit compliant on all
-versions of Unix. Once this is complete, scalar variables will be able
-to hold numbers larger than 2^32 with complete precision.
+Pointers are 64 bits wide), in which scalar variables will be able
+to hold numbers larger than 2^32 with complete precision. Perl has
+proven to be consistent and reliable in 64bit mode since 5.8.1 on
+all HP-UX 11.xx.
As of the date of this document, Perl is fully 64-bit compliant on
HP-UX 11.00 and up for both cc- and gcc builds. If you are about to
build a 64-bit perl with GNU gcc, please read the gcc section carefully.
-Should a user wish to experiment with compiling Perl in the LP64
-environment, use the -Duse64bitall flag to Configure. This will force
-Perl to be compiled in a pure LP64 environment (with the +DD64 flag for
-HP C-ANSI-C, with no additional options for GNU gcc 64-bit on PA-RISC,
-and with -mlp64 for GNU gcc on Itanium).
+Should a user have the need for compiling Perl in the LP64 environment,
+use the -Duse64bitall flag to Configure. This will force Perl to be
+compiled in a pure LP64 environment (with the +DD64 flag for HP C-ANSI-C,
+with no additional options for GNU gcc 64-bit on PA-RISC, and with
+-mlp64 for GNU gcc on Itanium).
If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a version of
the compiler that supports 64-bit operations.)
You can also use the -Duse64bitint flag to Configure. Although there
are some minor differences between compiling Perl with this flag versus
the -Duse64bitall flag, they should not be noticeable from a Perl user's
-perspective.
+perspective. When configuring -Duse64bitint using a 64bit gcc on a
+pa-risc architecture, -Duse64bitint is silently promoted to -Duse64bitall.
In both cases, it is strongly recommended that you use these flags when
you run Configure. If you do not use do this, but later answer the
=head2 GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
-If you attempt to compile Perl with threads on an 11.X system and also
-link in the GDBM library, then Perl will immediately core dump when it
-starts up. The only workaround at this point is to relink the GDBM
-library under 11.X, then relink it into Perl.
+If you attempt to compile Perl with (POSIX) threads on an 11.X system
+and also link in the GDBM library, then Perl will immediately core dump
+when it starts up. The only workaround at this point is to relink the
+GDBM library under 11.X, then relink it into Perl.
+
+the error might show something like:
+
+Pthread internal error: message: __libc_reinit() failed, file: ../pthreads/pthread.c, line: 1096
+Return Pointer is 0xc082bf33
+sh: 5345 Quit(coredump)
+
+and Configure will give up.
=head2 NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
io/fs.t may fail on test #18. This appears to be a bug in HP-UX and no
fix is currently available.
-=head2 perl -P and // and HP-UX
-
-If HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
--P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before
-perl sees it) is used. The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style
-until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder
-of the line. This means that common Perl constructs like
-
- s/foo//;
-
-will turn into illegal code
-
- s/foo
-
-The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">,
-like for example C<"!">:
-
- s!foo!!;
-
=head2 HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
By default, HP-UX comes configured with a maximum data segment size of
Whether you are using NIS does not matter. Amazingly enough,
the same bug also affects Solaris.
+=head1 Miscellaneous
+
+HP-UX 11 Y2K patch "Y2K-1100 B.11.00.B0125 HP-UX Core OS Year 2000
+Patch Bundle" has been reported to break the io/fs test #18 which
+tests whether utime() can change timestamps. The Y2K patch seems to
+break utime() so that over NFS the timestamps do not get changed
+(on local filesystems utime() still works). This has probably been
+fixed on your system by now.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
-Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>
H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
+Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>
With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.7.4: 2005-06-02
+Version 0.8.3: 2008-06-24
=cut
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