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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2018-08-08 14:51:25 +0200
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2018-08-08 14:51:57 +0200
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Update HP-UX readme
• Porting center released 5.28.0 :) • EOL matrix link was dead
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@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ To see what is installed on your system:
HP porting centre tries to keep up with customer demand and release
updates from the Open Source community. Having precompiled Perl binaries
available is obvious, though "up-to-date" is something relative. At the
-moment of writing only perl-5.10.1 was available (with 5.16.3 being the
-latest stable release from the porters point of view).
+moment of writing perl-5.10.1 and 5.28.0 were available.
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
@@ -75,11 +74,12 @@ 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 L<http://hpux.connect.org.uk/>
-The port currently available is built with GNU gcc.
+The port currently available is built with GNU gcc. As porting modern
+GNU gcc is extremely hard on HP-UX, they are stuck at version gcc-4.2.3.
=head2 Other prebuilt perl binaries
-To get even more recent perl depots for the whole range of HP-UX, visit
+To get more perl depots for the whole range of HP-UX, visit
H.Merijn Brand's site at L<http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/#Perl>.
Carefully read the notes to see if the available versions suit your needs.
@@ -238,9 +238,9 @@ The current naming convention is:
=head2 Itanium Processor Family (IPF) and HP-UX
HP-UX also runs on the new Itanium processor. This requires the use
-of a different version of HP-UX (currently 11.23 or 11i v2), and with
-the exception of a few differences detailed below and in later sections,
-Perl should compile with no problems.
+of HP-UX version 11.23 (11i v2) or 11.31 (11i v3), and with the exception
+of a few differences detailed below and in later sections, Perl should
+compile with no problems.
Although PA-RISC binaries can run on Itanium systems, you should not
attempt to use a PA-RISC version of Perl on an Itanium system. This is
@@ -280,10 +280,10 @@ support all versions of HP-UX, here is a short list
11.11 11i v1 32/64 PA 31-Dec-2015
11.22 11i v2 64 IPF 30-Apr-2004
11.23 11i v2 64 PA & IPF 31-Dec-2015
- 11.31 11i v3 64 PA & IPF 31-Dec-2020 (PA) 31-Dec-2022 (IPF)
+ 11.31 11i v3 64 PA & IPF 31-Dec-2020 (PA) 31-Dec-2025 (IPF)
See for the full list of hardware/OS support and expected end-of-life
-L<http://www.hp.com/go/hpuxservermatrix>
+L<https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/getpdf.aspx/4AA4-7673ENW.pdf>
=head2 Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
@@ -412,10 +412,10 @@ for updates/patches. Enter "ANSI" as keyword.
=head2 The GNU C Compiler
When you are going to use the GNU C compiler (gcc), and you don't have
-gcc yet, you can either build it yourself from the sources (available
-from e.g. L<http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html>) or fetch
-a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center
-at L<http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/cgi-bin/search?term=gcc&Search=Search>
+gcc yet, you can either build it yourself (if you feel masochistic enough)
+from the sources (available from e.g. L<http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html>)
+or fetch a prebuilt binary from the HP porting center at
+L<http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/cgi-bin/search?term=gcc&Search=Search>
or from the DSPP (you need to be a member) at
L<http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801?ciid=2a08725cc2f02110725cc2f02110275d6e10RCRD&jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0001>
(Browse through the list, because there are often multiple versions of