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
+http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=PERL
for both PA-RISC and IPF (Itanium Processor Family). They are built
-with the HP ANSI-C compiler.
+with the HP ANSI-C compiler. Up till 5.8.8 that was done 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
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 last CPU in this series is the PA-8900.
-Support for PA-RISC architectured machines officially ends as shown
-in the following table:
+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
+--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
| cores | | PA-8900/rp34x0 | 2014 |
+--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
+From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/faqs.html
+
+ The last order date for HP 9000 systems was December 31, 2008.
+
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
part of the output of the "model" command. The second column is the
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).
When you are going to use the GNU C compiler (gcc), and you don't have
gcc yet, you can either build it yourself from the sources (available
from e.g. http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/gcc/releases.html) or fetch
-a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center. There are two places where
-gcc prebuilds can be fetched; the first and best (for HP-UX 11 only) is
+a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center. gcc prebuilds can be
+fetched from
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,547,00.html
-the second is http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/ where you can also
-find the GNU binutils package. (Browse through the list, because there
-are often multiple versions of the same package available).
+(Browse through the list, because there are often multiple versions of
+the same package available).
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
threads library package. Two examples are the HP DCE package, available
on "HP-UX Hardware Extensions 3.0, Install and Core OS, Release 10.20,
April 1999 (B3920-13941)" or the Freely available PTH package, available
-on H.Merijn's site (http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/).
+on H.Merijn's site (http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/). The use of PTH
+will be unsupported in perl-5.12 and up and is rather buggy in 5.11.x.
If you are going to use the HP DCE package, the library used for threading
is /usr/lib/libcma.sl, but there have been multiple updates of that
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.8.1: 2008-02-06
+Version 0.8.3: 2008-06-24
=cut
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