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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-02-09 16:46:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-02-09 16:46:54 +0000 |
| commit | c7d9b0963c05530262614fc3d2388e2658739e34 (patch) | |
| tree | 7be5865a2685b52128fc236cb1316eb47624e952 /README.hpux | |
| parent | 455d824a47f78dd5ff51a248ef7718d109d66a87 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c7d9b0963c05530262614fc3d2388e2658739e34.tar.gz | |
Integrate changes #8687,8736 from maintperl.
HP-UX thread patches from Merijn H. Brand.
Latin nit from Philip Newton.
p4raw-link: @8736 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: 46c0e3f74b24cd7d4cacf5a7af8403364b68a206
p4raw-link: @8687 on //depot/maint-5.6/perl: 55551d482634089ae7d12e15564ce5358a4701f4
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8737
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/maint-5.6/perl@8735 'copy in'
hints/hpux.sh (@8609..) README.hpux (@8687..)
Diffstat (limited to 'README.hpux')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.hpux | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index e850441095..7d0198353c 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ cannot be compiled, or that does not function as expected. =head2 Threaded Perl -It is impossible to compile a version of threaded Perl on any version of -HP-UX before 10.30, and it is strongly suggested that you be running on +It is possible to compile a version of threaded Perl on any version of +HP-UX before 10.30, but it is strongly suggested that you be running on HP-UX 11.00 at least. To compile Perl with threads, add -Dusethreads to the arguments of @@ -197,6 +197,13 @@ is listed before -lc in the list of libraries to link Perl with. As of the date of this document, Perl threads are not fully supported on HP-UX. +HP-UX versions before 10.30 require a seperate installation of a POSIX +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 +though worldwide HP-UX mirrors of precompiled packages +(e.g. http://hpux.tn.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/alpha.html) + =head2 64-bit Perl Beginning with HP-UX 11.00, programs compiled under HP-UX can take @@ -268,6 +275,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella. =head1 DATE -Version 0.6.1: 2000/06/20 +Version 0.6.2: 2001-02-02 =cut |