| 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
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| 2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
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| 3 | designed to be readable as is.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME
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| 6 |
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| 7 | README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 10 |
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| 11 | This document describes various features of HP's Unix operating system
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| 12 | (HP-UX) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is
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| 13 | compiled and/or runs.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | =head2 Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is the first to ship
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| 18 | with Perl. By the time it was perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first
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| 19 | occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and can be installed using
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| 20 |
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| 21 | swinstall -s /cdrom perl
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| 22 |
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| 23 | assuming you have mounted that CD on /cdrom. In this version the
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| 24 | following modules were installed:
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| 25 |
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| 26 | ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04 HTML::Parser-3.19 XML::DOM-1.25
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| 27 | Archive::Tar-0.072 HTML::Tagset-3.03 XML::Parser-2.27
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| 28 | Compress::Zlib-1.08 MIME::Base64-2.11 XML::Simple-1.05
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| 29 | Convert::ASN1-0.10 Net-1.07 XML::XPath-1.09
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| 30 | Digest::MD5-2.11 PPM-2.1.5 XML::XSLT-0.32
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| 31 | File::CounterFile-0.12 SOAP::Lite-0.46 libwww-perl-5.51
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| 32 | Font::AFM-1.18 Storable-1.011 libxml-perl-0.07
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| 33 | HTML-Tree-3.11 URI-1.11 perl-ldap-0.23
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| 34 |
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| 35 | The build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
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| 36 | files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
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| 37 |
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| 38 | If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
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| 39 | automatically.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | More recent (preinstalled) HP-UX systems have more recent versions of
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| 42 | Perl and the updated modules.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | =head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
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| 45 |
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| 46 | HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and
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| 47 | release updates from the Open Source community. Having precompiled
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| 48 | Perl binaries available is obvious.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | The HP porting centres are limited in what systems they are allowed
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| 51 | to port to and they usually choose the two most recent OS versions
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| 52 | available. This means that at the moment of writing, there are only
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| 53 | HP-UX 11.11 (pa-risc 2.0) and HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) ports available
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| 54 | on the porting centres.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | HP has asked the porting centre to move Open Source binaries
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| 57 | from /opt to /usr/local, so binaries produced since the start
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| 58 | of July 2002 are located in /usr/local.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | One of HP porting centres URL's is http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
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| 61 | The port currently available is built with GNU gcc.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | =head2 Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
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| 64 |
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| 65 | When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. The C compiler
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| 66 | that ships with all HP-UX systems is a K&R compiler that should only be
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| 67 | used to build new kernels.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | Perl can be compiled with either HP's ANSI C compiler or with gcc. The
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| 70 | former is recommended, as not only can it compile Perl with no
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| 71 | difficulty, but also can take advantage of features listed later that
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| 72 | require the use of HP compiler-specific command-line flags.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | If you decide to use gcc, make sure your installation is recent and
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| 75 | complete, and be sure to read the Perl INSTALL file for more gcc-specific
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| 76 | details.
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| 77 |
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| 78 | =head2 PA-RISC
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| 79 |
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| 80 | HP's current Unix systems run on its own Precision Architecture
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| 81 | (PA-RISC) chip. HP-UX used to run on the Motorola MC68000 family of
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| 82 | chips, but any machine with this chip in it is quite obsolete and this
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