=head1 NAME
-README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems
+perlhpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems
=head1 DESCRIPTION
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
+L<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 by ActiveState.
+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:
from /opt to /usr/local, so binaries produced since the start
of July 2002 are located in /usr/local.
-One of HP porting centres URL's is http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
+One of HP porting centres URL's is L<http://hpux.connect.org.uk/>
The port currently available is built with GNU gcc.
=head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
| cores | | PA-8900/rp34x0 | 2014 |
+--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
-From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/faqs.html:
+From L<http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/faqs.html>
The last order date for HP 9000 systems was December 31, 2008.
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
+L<http://www.hp.com/go/hpuxservermatrix>
=head2 Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
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
-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).
+from e.g. L<http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html>) or fetch
+a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center. gcc prebuilds can be
+fetched from
+L<http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,547,00.html>
+(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, HP-UX 11.11
+gcc binaries available on L<http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/> and/or
+L<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
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 (L<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
Whether you are using NIS does not matter. Amazingly enough,
the same bug also affects Solaris.
+=head1 error: pasting ")" and "l" does not give a valid preprocessing token
+
+There seems to be a broken system header file in HP-UX 11.00 that
+breaks perl building in 32bit mode with GNU gcc-4.x causing this
+error. The same file for HP-UX 11.11 (even though the file is older)
+does not show this failure, and has the correct definition, so the
+best fix is to patch the header to match:
+
+ --- /usr/include/inttypes.h 2001-04-20 18:42:14 +0200
+ +++ /usr/include/inttypes.h 2000-11-14 09:00:00 +0200
+ @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
+ #define UINT32_C(__c) __CONCAT_U__(__c)
+ #else /* __LP64 */
+ #define INT32_C(__c) __CONCAT__(__c,l)
+ -#define UINT32_C(__c) __CONCAT__(__CONCAT_U__(__c),l)
+ +#define UINT32_C(__c) __CONCAT__(__c,ul)
+ #endif /* __LP64 */
+
+ #define INT64_C(__c) __CONCAT_L__(__c,l)
+
+
=head1 Miscellaneous
HP-UX 11 Y2K patch "Y2K-1100 B.11.00.B0125 HP-UX Core OS Year 2000
With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
-=head1 DATE
-
-Version 0.8.3: 2008-06-24
-
=cut
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