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 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:
| cores | | PA-8900/rp34x0 | 2014 |
+--------+----------------+----------------+-----------------+
-From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/faqs.html:
+From http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/faqs.html
The last order date for HP 9000 systems was December 31, 2008.
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
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