=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
+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:
_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
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.
=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.
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/
=head2 Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
-If you are interested in the VM/ESA, z/OS (formerly known as OS/390)
+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.
See also:
- http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-mvs
+ http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-mvs.html
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