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@@ -26,11 +26,15 @@ install it under a different prefix from /usr/perl5. Common prefixes
to use are /usr/local and /opt/perl.
You may wish to put your version of perl in the PATH of all users by
-changing the link /usr/bin/perl. This is OK, as all perl scripts
-shipped with Solaris use an explicit path. Solaris ships with a
-range of Solaris-specific modules. If you choose to install your own
-version of perl you will find the source of many of these modules is
-available on CPAN under the Sun::Solaris:: namespace.
+changing the link /usr/bin/perl. This is probably OK, as most perl
+scripts shipped with Solaris use an explicit path. (There are a few
+exceptions, such as /usr/bin/rpm2cpio and /etc/rcm/scripts/README, but
+these are also sufficiently generic that the actual version of perl
+probably doesn't matter too much.)
+
+Solaris ships with a range of Solaris-specific modules. If you choose
+to install your own version of perl you will find the source of many of
+these modules is available on CPAN under the Sun::Solaris:: namespace.
Solaris may include two versions of perl, e.g. Solaris 9 includes
both 5.005_03 and 5.6.1. This is to provide stability across Solaris
@@ -587,11 +591,96 @@ software products, for example the Sun WebServer, which is part of
the Solaris Server Intranet Extension, or the Sun Directory Services,
part of Solaris for ISPs) or download the ANDIrand package from
L. If you use SUNWski, make a
-symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random.
+symbolic link /dev/urandom pointing to /dev/random. For more details,
+see Document ID27606 entitled "Differing /dev/random support requirements
+within Solaris[TM] Operating Environments", available at
+http://sunsolve.sun.com .
It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
Perl!), available from L.
+=head1 SunOS 4.x
+
+In SunOS 4.x you most probably want to use the SunOS ld, /usr/bin/ld,
+since the more recent versions of GNU ld (like 2.13) do not seem to
+work for building Perl anymore. When linking the extensions, the
+GNU ld gets very unhappy and spews a lot of errors like this
+
+ ... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
+
+and dies. Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the
+ld to be /usr/bin/ld.
+
+As of Perl 5.8.1 the dynamic loading of libraries (DynaLoader, XSLoader)
+also seems to have become broken in in SunOS 4.x. Therefore the default
+is to build Perl statically.
+
+Running the test suite in SunOS 4.1 is a bit tricky since the
+F test hangs (subtest #51, FWIW) for some
+unknown reason. Just stop the test and kill that particular Perl
+process.
+
+There are various other failures, that as of SunOS 4.1.4 and gcc 3.2.2
+look a lot like gcc bugs. Many of the failures happen in the Encode
+tests, where for example when the test expects "0" you get "0"
+which should after a little squinting look very odd indeed.
+Another example is earlier in F where chr(0xff) is
+expected but the test fails because the result is chr(0xff). Exactly.
+
+This is the "make test" result from the said combination:
+
+ Failed 27 test scripts out of 745, 96.38% okay.
+
+Running the C is painful because of the many failing
+Unicode-related tests will output megabytes of failure messages,
+but if one patiently waits, one gets these results:
+
+ Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
+ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ...
+ ../ext/Encode/t/at-cn.t 4 1024 29 4 13.79% 14-17
+ ../ext/Encode/t/at-tw.t 10 2560 17 10 58.82% 2 4 6 8 10 12
+ 14-17
+ ../ext/Encode/t/enc_data.t 29 7424 ?? ?? % ??
+ ../ext/Encode/t/enc_eucjp.t 29 7424 ?? ?? % ??
+ ../ext/Encode/t/enc_module.t 29 7424 ?? ?? % ??
+ ../ext/Encode/t/encoding.t 29 7424 ?? ?? % ??
+ ../ext/Encode/t/grow.t 12 3072 24 12 50.00% 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
+ 16 18 20 22 24
+ Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ../ext/Encode/t/guess.t 255 65280 29 40 137.93% 10-29
+ ../ext/Encode/t/jperl.t 29 7424 15 30 200.00% 1-15
+ ../ext/Encode/t/mime-header.t 2 512 10 2 20.00% 2-3
+ ../ext/Encode/t/perlio.t 22 5632 38 22 57.89% 1-4 9-16 19-20
+ 23-24 27-32
+ ../ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ??
+ ../ext/PerlIO/t/encoding.t 14 1 7.14% 11
+ ../ext/PerlIO/t/fallback.t 9 2 22.22% 3 5
+ ../ext/Socket/t/socketpair.t 0 2 45 70 155.56% 11-45
+ ../lib/CPAN/t/vcmp.t 30 1 3.33% 25
+ ../lib/Tie/File/t/09_gen_rs.t 0 15 ?? ?? % ??
+ ../lib/Unicode/Collate/t/test.t 199 30 15.08% 7 26-27 71-75
+ 81-88 95 101
+ 103-104 106 108-
+ 109 122 124 161
+ 169-172
+ ../lib/sort.t 0 139 119 26 21.85% 107-119
+ op/alarm.t 4 1 25.00% 4
+ op/utfhash.t 97 1 1.03% 31
+ run/fresh_perl.t 91 1 1.10% 32
+ uni/tr_7jis.t ?? ?? % ??
+ uni/tr_eucjp.t 29 7424 6 12 200.00% 1-6
+ uni/tr_sjis.t 29 7424 6 12 200.00% 1-6
+ 56 tests and 467 subtests skipped.
+ Failed 27/811 test scripts, 96.67% okay. 1383/75399 subtests failed, 98.17% okay.
+
+The alarm() test failure is caused by system() apparently blocking
+alarm(). That is probably a libc bug, and given that SunOS 4.x
+has been end-of-lifed years ago, don't hold your breath for a fix.
+In addition to that, don't try anything too Unicode-y, especially
+with Encode, and you should be fine in SunOS 4.x.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
The original was written by Andy Dougherty F
@@ -599,7 +688,3 @@ drawing heavily on advice from Alan Burlison, Nick Ing-Simmons, Tim Bunce,
and many other Solaris users over the years.
Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F.
-
-=head1 LAST MODIFIED
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-$Id: README.solaris,v 1.4 2000/11/11 20:29:58 doughera Exp $