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author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-06-07 08:25:14 -0600 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-06-07 08:29:38 -0600 |
commit | 2652a4970951ac3be19c2d9ea7a82e270b1541b1 (patch) | |
tree | 7cdd6b42e0c94e99de6d3002c3e5317725d97d36 | |
parent | 930ee041f02371f38c7c11533f2eb8c15787be73 (diff) | |
download | perl-2652a4970951ac3be19c2d9ea7a82e270b1541b1.tar.gz |
Add z/OS platform notes to 5.32 perldelta
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 1ad9c0077c..1d239a29e6 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -1374,6 +1374,54 @@ C<-Duse64bitint> is now the default on VMS. =back +=item z/OS + +Perl 5.32 has been tested on z/OS 2.4, with the following caveats: + +=over 4 + +=item * + +Only static builds (the default) build reliably + +=item * + +Threaded builds have problems with mutexes during critical sections, so +use at your own risk + +=item * + +Some CPAN modules that are shipped with perl fail at least one of their +self-tests. These are: +Archive::Tar, +Config::Perl::V, +CPAN::Meta, +CPAN::Meta::YAML, +Digest::MD5, +Digest::SHA, +Encode, +ExtUtils::MakeMaker, +ExtUtils::Manifest, +HTTP::Tiny, +IO::Compress, +IPC::Cmd, +JSON::PP, +libnet, +MIME::Base64, +Module::Metadata, +PerlIO::via-QuotedPrint, +Pod::Checker, +podlators, +Pod::Simple, +Socket, +and Test::Harness. + +The causes of the failures range from the self-test itself is flawed, +and the module actually works fine, up to the module doesn't work at all +on EBCDIC platforms. + +=back + =back =head1 Internal Changes |