Add more L<> around links and F<> around filenames.
Fix one case where F<> had been incorrectly used instead of L<>.
You need the Unix emulation for AmigaOS, whose most important part is
B<ixemul.library>. For a minimum setup, get the latest versions
of the following packages from the Aminet archives
-( http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/ ):
+( L<http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/> ):
ixemul-bin
ixemul-env-bin
=head1 CONTACT
For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers:
-http://ports.haiku-files.org/
+L<http://ports.haiku-files.org/>
The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>.
The official (threaded) builds from HP, as they are shipped on the
Application DVD/CD's are available on
-http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?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. Up till 5.8.8 that was done by ActiveState.
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
+from e.g. L<http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/gcc/releases.html>) or fetch
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
+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/). The use of PTH
+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
By far the easiest way to build Perl for OS/400 is to use the PASE
(Portable Application Solutions Environment), for more information see
-http://www.iseries.ibm.com/developer/factory/pase/index.html
+L<http://www.iseries.ibm.com/developer/factory/pase/index.html>
This environment allows one to use AIX APIs while programming, and it
provides a runtime that allows AIX binaries to execute directly on the
PowerPC iSeries.
is based quite an old release of Perl, Perl 5.00502 (August 1998).
(As of July 2002 the latest release of Perl is 5.8.0, and even 5.6.1
has been out since April 2001.) If you need to run Perl on ILE, though,
-you may need this older port: http://www.cpan.org/ports/#os400
+you may need this older port: L<http://www.cpan.org/ports/#os400>
Note that any Perl release later than 5.00502 has not been ported to ILE.
If you need to use Perl in the ILE environment, you may want to consider
Starting with Solaris 8, perl5.00503 (or higher) is supplied with the
operating system, so you might not even need to build a newer version
of perl at all. The Sun-supplied version is installed in /usr/perl5
-with /usr/bin/perl pointing to /usr/perl5/bin/perl. Do not disturb
+with F</usr/bin/perl> pointing to F</usr/perl5/bin/perl>. Do not disturb
that installation unless you really know what you are doing. If you
remove the perl supplied with the OS, you will render some bits of
your system inoperable. If you wish to install a newer version of perl,
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 probably OK, as most perl
+changing the link F</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
+exceptions, such as F</usr/bin/rpm2cpio> and F</etc/rcm/scripts/README>, but
these are also sufficiently generic that the actual version of perl
probably doesn't matter too much.)
=head2 op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
-op/stat.t test 4 may fail if you are on a tmpfs of some sort.
+F<op/stat.t> test 4 may fail if you are on a tmpfs of some sort.
Building in /tmp sometimes shows this behavior. The
test suite detects if you are building in /tmp, but it may not be able
to catch all tmpfs situations.
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 .
+L<http://sunsolve.sun.com> .
It may be possible to use the Entropy Gathering Daemon (written in
Perl!), available from L<http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/>.
... relocation truncated to fit: BASE13 ...
and dies. Therefore the SunOS 4.1 hints file explicitly sets the
-ld to be /usr/bin/ld.
+ld to be F</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
The BerkeleyDB works with Berkeley DB versions 2.* or greater.
The Berkeley DB 4.1.25 has been tested with Tru64 V5.1A and found
-to work. The latest Berkeley DB can be found from F<http://www.sleepycat.com>.
+to work. The latest Berkeley DB can be found from L<http://www.sleepycat.com>.
=head2 64-bit Perl on Tru64
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