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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2008-01-11 13:55:07 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2008-01-11 13:55:07 +0000
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Remove the -P switch
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@@ -559,25 +559,6 @@ If you are compiling Perl on a remotely-mounted NFS filesystem, the test
io/fs.t may fail on test #18. This appears to be a bug in HP-UX and no
fix is currently available.
-=head2 perl -P and // and HP-UX
-
-If HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
--P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before
-perl sees it) is used. The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style
-until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder
-of the line. This means that common Perl constructs like
-
- s/foo//;
-
-will turn into illegal code
-
- s/foo
-
-The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">,
-like for example C<"!">:
-
- s!foo!!;
-
=head2 HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
By default, HP-UX comes configured with a maximum data segment size of