| 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
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| 2 | see. It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is
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| 3 | specially 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.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS
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| 10 |
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| 11 | http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html
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| 12 | http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/hp_freeware/perl/
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| 13 | Perl language for MPE
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| 14 | Last updated January 12, 2006 @ 2100 UTC
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| 15 |
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| 16 |
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| 17 | =head1 NOTE
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| 18 |
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| 19 | This is a podified version of the above-mentioned web page,
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| 20 | podified by Jarkko Hietaniemi 2001-Jan-01.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | =head1 Binary distribution from HP
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| 23 |
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| 24 | The simplest way to obtain Perl for the MPE/iX is to go either of
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| 25 | these URLs and follow the instructions within.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/hp_freeware/perl/
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| 28 | http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Use which ever one is more recent.
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| 31 |
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| 32 |
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| 33 | =head1 What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
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| 34 |
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| 35 | January 12, 2006
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| 36 |
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| 37 | =over 4
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| 38 |
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| 39 | =item *
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Updated for perl-5.8.8 and perl-5.9.3 by Ken Hirsch.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | Simplified the build process by using the MPEAUTOCONF
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| 44 | functionality in Mark Klein's ld.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | If you build this from scratch, make sure you have a version
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| 47 | of ld which supports it. In the shell, type
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| 48 |
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| 49 | ld --help
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| 50 | and look for AUTOCONF or MPEAUTOCONF near the bottom
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| 51 |
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| 52 | or do this:
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| 53 | ld --help 2>&1 | grep AUTOCONF
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| 54 |
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| 55 | If you see don't see AUTOCONF or MPEAUTOCONF, make sure you get a new
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| 56 | version.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | You also do not have to use mpeix/relink after building, so the
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| 59 | recommend sequence is:
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| 60 |
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| 61 | ./Configure -de
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| 62 |
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| 63 | # or ./Configure -de -Dusedevel
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| 64 | # if you're building a development version
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| 65 |
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| 66 | make
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| 67 | make test
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| 68 | # if you run this in a job, do "make test_notty"
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| 69 |
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| 70 | make install
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| 71 |
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| 72 | Be prepared for a wait. These take much longer on MPE/iX than on a Unix
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| 73 | system, because of a slow forking, mostly. On a lightly-loaded HP3000
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| 74 | Series 979 running MPE/iX 7.5:
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| 75 |
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| 76 | Configure: 1 hour
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| 77 | make: 1 hour 15 minutes
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| 78 | make test 1 hour 45 minutes
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| 79 |
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| 80 | Various socket problems were fixed in mpeix.c.
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| 81 |
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| 82 | Mark Klein provided a fixed sigsetjmp (that works with dynamic
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| 83 | libraries) in mpeix_setjmp.c
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| 84 |
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| 85 | =item *
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| 86 |
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| 87 | June 1, 2000
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| 88 |
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| 89 | =over 4
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| 90 |
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| 91 | =item *
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| 92 |
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| 93 | Rebuilt to be compatible with mod_perl. If you plan on using
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| 94 | mod_perl, you MUST download and install this version of Perl/iX!
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| 95 |
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| 96 | =item *
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| 97 |
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| 98 | uselargefiles="undef": not available in MPE for POSIX files yet.
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| 99 |
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| 100 | =item *
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| 101 |
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| 102 | Now bundled with various add-on packages:
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| 103 |
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| 104 | =over 8
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| 105 |
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| 106 | =item *
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| 107 |
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| 108 | libnet (as seen on CPAN)
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| 109 |
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| 110 | =item *
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| 111 |
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| 112 | libwww-perl (LWP) which lets Perl programs behave like web browsers:
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| 113 |
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| 114 | 1. #!/PERL/PUB/perl
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| 115 | 2. use LWP::Simple;
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| 116 | 3. $doc = get('http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html'); # reads the
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| 117 | web page into variable $doc
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| 118 |
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| 119 | (http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html)
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| 120 |
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| 121 | =item *
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| 122 |
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| 123 | mod_perl (just the perl portion; the actual DSO will be released
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| 124 | soon with Apache/iX 1.3.12 from bixby.org). This module allows you to
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| 125 | write high performance persistent Perl CGI scripts and all sorts of
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| 126 | cool things. (http://perl.apache.org/)
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| 127 |
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| 128 | and much much more hiding under /PERL/PUB/.cpan/
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| 129 |
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| 130 | =item *
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| 131 |
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| 132 | The CPAN module now works for automatic downloading and
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| 133 | installing of add-on packages:
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| 134 |
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| 135 | 1. export FTP_PASSIVE=1
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| 136 | 2. perl -MCPAN -e shell
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| 137 | 3. Ignore any terminal I/O related complaints!
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| 138 |
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| 139 | (http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/perl/CPAN.html)
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| 140 |
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| 141 | =back
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| 142 |
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| 143 | =back
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| 144 |
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| 145 | May 20, 2000
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| 146 |
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| 147 | =over 4
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| 148 |
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| 149 | =item *
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| 150 |
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| 151 | Updated to version 5.6.0. Builds straight out of the box on MPE/iX.
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| 152 |
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| 153 | =item *
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| 154 |
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| 155 | Perl's getpwnam() function which had regressed to being
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| 156 | unimplemented on MPE is now implemented once again.
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| 157 |
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| 158 | =back
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| 159 |
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| 160 | September 17, 1999
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| 161 |
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| 162 | =over 4
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| 163 |
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| 164 | =item *
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| 165 |
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