X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/f3e4a94eca8091ef3e896dc377f9a1a97616795c..fb752ac94711c34b81bc8339870f39dc7f0f26f1:/README.hpux diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index c05a39f..b0536dc 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -38,6 +38,24 @@ files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112 If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed automatically. +=head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre + +HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and +release updates from the Open Source community. Having precompiled +Perl binaries available is obvious. + +The HP porting centres are limited in what systems they are allowed +to port to and they usually choose the two most recent OS versions +available. This means that at the moment of writing, there are only +HPUX-11.00 and 11-20/22 (IA64) ports available on the porting centres. + +HP has asked the porting centre to move Open Source binaries +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/ +The port currently available is built with GNU gcc. + =head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. The C compiler @@ -64,6 +82,17 @@ Motorola chipset. The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last update is 2.0. +A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file +/usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last +part of the output of the "model" command. The second column is the +PA-RISC version and the third column is the exact chip type used. +(Start browsing at the bottom to prevent confusion ;-) + + # model + 9000/800/L1000-44 + # grep L1000-44 /usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models + L1000-44 2.0 PA8500 + =head2 PA-RISC 1.0 The original version of PA-RISC, HP no longer sells any system with this chip. @@ -105,9 +134,18 @@ contain PA-RISC 2.0 chips: D280, D370, D380, D390, D650, J220, J2240, J280, J282, J400, J410, J5000, J5500XM, J5600, J7000, J7600, K250, K260, K260-EG, K270, K360, K370, K380, K450, K460, K460-EG, K460-XP, K470, K570, K580, L1000, - L2000, L3000, N4000, R380, R390, RP2400, RP2430, RP2450, RP2470, - RP5400, RP5430, RP5450, RP5470, RP7400, RP7410, RP8400, SD16000, - SD32000, SD64000, T540, T600, V2000, V2200, V2250, V2500, V2600 + L2000, L3000, N4000, R380, R390, RP2400, RP2405, RP2430, RP2450, + RP2470, RP5400, RP5405, RP5430, RP5450, RP5470, RP7400, RP7405, + RP7410, RP8400, SD16000, SD32000, SD64000, T540, T600, V2000, V2200, + V2250, V2500, V2600 + +Just before HP took over Compaq, some systems were renamed. Visit +http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/server_names.html to see what +the changes are, or will be. + + HP 9000 A-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp2400 series. + HP 9000 L-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp5400 series. + HP 9000 N-Class servers, now renamed HP Server rp7400. =head2 Itanium @@ -115,13 +153,7 @@ HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the date of this document's last update, the following systems contain Itanium chips (this is very likely to be out of date): - RX4610, RX9610 - -A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file -/opt/langtools/lib/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the -output of the "uname -m" command (without the leading "9000/"). The -second column is the PA-RISC version and the third column is the exact -chip type used. (Start browsing at the bottom to prevent confusion ;-) + RX2600, RX4610, RX5670, RX9610 =head2 Portability Between PA-RISC Versions @@ -260,10 +292,17 @@ 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 +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. +find the GNU binutils package. (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 https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ for +HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.00 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 using itself. Building a 64bit capable gcc from source is possible only when you have the HP C-ANSI C compiler available, which you should use anyway when @@ -381,6 +420,23 @@ expected. compiler. If you want to compile Perl using gcc, you will have to get a version of the compiler that support 64-bit operations.) +=head2 Oracle on HP-UX + +Using perl to connect to Oracle databases through DBI and DBD::Oracle +has caused a lot of people many headaches. Read README.hpux in the +DBD::Oracle for much more information. The reason to mention it here +is that Oracle requires a perl built with libcl and libpthread, the +latter even when perl is build without threads. Building perl using +all defaults, but still enabling to build DBD::Oracle later on can be +achieved using + + Configure -A prepend:libswanted='cl pthread ' ... + +Do not forget the space before the trailing quote. + +Also note that this does not (yet) work with all configurations, +it is known to fail with 64bit versions of GCC. + =head2 GDBM and Threads on HP-UX If you attempt to compile Perl with threads on an 11.X system and also @@ -439,8 +495,8 @@ the following: #0 0xc004216c in () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #1 0xc00d7550 in __nss_src_state_destr () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #2 0xc00d7768 in __nss_src_state_destr () from /usr/lib/libc.2 - #3 0xc00d78a8 in nss_delete () from /usr/lib/libc.2 - #4 0xc01126d8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.2 + #3 0xc00d78a8 in nss_delete () from /usr/lib/libc.2 + #4 0xc01126d8 in endpwent () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #5 0xd1950 in Perl_pp_epwent () from ./perl #6 0x94d3c in Perl_runops_standard () from ./perl #7 0x23728 in S_run_body () from ./perl @@ -451,11 +507,11 @@ The key here is the C call. One workaround for this bug seems to be to create add to the file F (at least) the following lines - group: files + group: files passwd: files Whether you are using NIS does not matter. Amazingly enough, -the same bug affects also Solaris. +the same bug also affects Solaris. =head1 AUTHOR @@ -466,6 +522,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella. =head1 DATE -Version 0.6.5: 2002-02-27 +Version 0.6.7: 2002-09-05 =cut