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| author | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2002-08-28 19:39:27 +0200 |
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| committer | hv <hv@crypt.org> | 2002-08-30 12:02:59 +0000 |
| commit | 48529397bf865f5cd2d5a2b5f56dbb561c78b45d (patch) | |
| tree | 8a15af37a189a01774539ce990e7b10cc55de5b9 /README.hpux | |
| parent | 0a9af0ff24cd14b55b1aae8251486f9ccf11b2b1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-48529397bf865f5cd2d5a2b5f56dbb561c78b45d.tar.gz | |
Re: Recent changes on the HP porting center
From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
Message-Id: <20020828173024.3E95.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17811
Diffstat (limited to 'README.hpux')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index 0fbdfcfc80..302d024f0d 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 @@ -470,8 +488,8 @@ 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 @@ -482,7 +500,7 @@ The key here is the C<nss_delete> call. One workaround for this bug seems to be to create add to the file F</etc/nsswitch.conf> (at least) the following lines - group: files + group: files passwd: files Whether you are using NIS does not matter. Amazingly enough, |