X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/538426add6ddfe4c6ed16e32c351b778d1c89498..50ddda1da6029292d65c335f9a21ead754f187d7:/README.irix diff --git a/README.irix b/README.irix index de06b00..911a251 100644 --- a/README.irix +++ b/README.irix @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ or later compilers (use cc -version to check). =head2 Building 64-bit Perl in Irix Use - + sh Configure -Dcc='cc -64' -Duse64bitint This requires require a 64-bit MIPS CPU (R8000, R10000, ...) @@ -74,14 +74,10 @@ errors (especially with -Duse64bitall). =head2 Building with threads in Irix Run Configure with -Duseithreads which will configure Perl with -the new Perl 5.8.0 "interpreter threads", see L. - -The old Perl 5.005 threads is obsolete, unmaintained, and its use is -discouraged. If you really want it, run Configure with the --Dusethreads -Duse5005threads options as described in INSTALL. +the Perl 5.8.0 "interpreter threads", see L. -For either thread model and for Irix 6.2, you have to have the -following patches installed: +For Irix 6.2 with perl threads, you have to have the following +patches installed: 1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages 1645 Irix 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates @@ -96,6 +92,43 @@ and later are okay. Thanks to Hannu Napari for the IRIX pthreads patches information. +=head2 Irix 5.3 + +While running Configure and when building, you are likely to get +quite a few of these warnings: + + ld: + The shared object /usr/lib/libm.so did not resolve any symbols. + You may want to remove it from your link line. + +Ignore them: in IRIX 5.3 there is no way to quieten ld about this. + +During compilation you will see this warning from toke.c: + + uopt: Warning: Perl_yylex: this procedure not optimized because it + exceeds size threshold; to optimize this procedure, use -Olimit option + with value >= 4252. + +Ignore the warning. + +In IRIX 5.3 and with Perl 5.8.1 (Perl 5.8.0 didn't compile in IRIX 5.3) +the following failures are known. + + Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed + -------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ../ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ?? + ../lib/Math/Trig.t 255 65280 29 12 41.38% 24-29 + ../lib/sort.t 0 138 119 72 60.50% 48-119 + 56 tests and 474 subtests skipped. + Failed 3/811 test scripts, 99.63% okay. 78/75813 subtests failed, 99.90% okay. + +They are suspected to be compiler errors (at least the shuffle.t +failure is known from some IRIX 6 setups) and math library errors +(the Trig.t failure), but since IRIX 5 is long since end-of-lifed, +further fixes for the IRIX are unlikely. If you can get gcc for 5.3, +you could try that, too, since gcc in IRIX 6 is a known workaround for +at least the shuffle.t and sort.t failures. + =head1 AUTHOR Jarkko Hietaniemi