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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-04-03 12:54:42 +0000
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[ 23962] README.cygwin additions by Reini Urban [ 23972] Jan Dubois has taken over maintenance of Win32 stuff from Sarathy [ 24008] Some updates to current status [ 24009] Subject: Minor AUTHORS patch From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:44:45 -0600 Message-ID: <20050308154445.GB3213@petdance.com> [ 24015] Subject: Minor AUTHORS patch From: "Mike Giroux" <rmgiroux@hotmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:39:04 -0500 Message-ID: <BAY104-F4B1925432A15287069D3BCE520@phx.gbl> [ 24029] Change my email, put real name of Pixel [ 24110] Fix typo in INSTALL (s/USE_HAS_SEED_EXPLICIT/USE_HASH_SEED_EXPLICIT/) [ 24112] AUTHORS update [ 24133] Add encoding::warnings to Maintainers.pl and rebuild META.yml for release (not the META.yml part) p4raw-link: @24133 on //depot/perl: f366f7b38b027e6aab7ac71e1c1715678bda65b1 p4raw-link: @24112 on //depot/perl: febff313fdb0c981cad2c773917ba2b9ee12c10f p4raw-link: @24110 on //depot/perl: f80da78ecb80cd50fe82c63c50dc2b384716bdcf p4raw-link: @24029 on //depot/perl: 6576cad96dde71e44bcbd5446f5115bcc003d895 p4raw-link: @24015 on //depot/perl: 5207adf3a6188a4cfbe2431a4dcc3ca14f296618 p4raw-link: @24009 on //depot/perl: c478aefb95db58c5f937ab7c70bba552d23df9b2 p4raw-link: @24008 on //depot/perl: 7cd31a2a3a16340eaa8eea422e384f0122df1b22 p4raw-link: @23972 on //depot/perl: 2bfd3252dd0e05c7bf8bcc370c10fa405ae0fb9f p4raw-link: @23962 on //depot/perl: 75e109ec81c2002e1d04766607aa888464c8e6cf p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@24140 p4raw-integrated: from //depot/perl@24015 'ignore' AUTHORS (@24009..) p4raw-integrated: from //depot/perl@23944 'copy in' README.hpux (@23611..) 'edit in' Porting/Maintainers.pl (@23972..) 'merge in' README.win32 (@23621..) README.cygwin (@23961..) INSTALL (@24105..)
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@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ compiled and/or runs.
=head2 Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
-As of application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is shipped with
-perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and
-can be installed using
+Application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is the first to ship
+with Perl. By the time it was perl-5.6.1 in /opt/perl. The first
+occurrence is on CD 5012-7954 and can be installed using
swinstall -s /cdrom perl
assuming you have mounted that CD on /cdrom. In this version the
-following modules are installed:
+following modules were installed:
ActivePerl::DocTools-0.04 HTML::Parser-3.19 XML::DOM-1.25
Archive::Tar-0.072 HTML::Tagset-3.03 XML::Parser-2.27
@@ -32,12 +32,15 @@ following modules are installed:
Font::AFM-1.18 Storable-1.011 libxml-perl-0.07
HTML-Tree-3.11 URI-1.11 perl-ldap-0.23
-The build is a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
+The build was a portable hppa-1.1 multithread build that supports large
files compiled with gcc-2.9-hppa-991112
If you perform a new installation, then Perl will be installed
automatically.
+More recent (preinstalled) HP-UX systems have more recent versions of
+Perl and the updated modules.
+
=head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
HP porting centre tries very hard to keep up with customer demand and
@@ -47,7 +50,8 @@ 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-UX 11.11 (pa-risc 2.0) and HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) 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
@@ -80,7 +84,8 @@ document will not attempt to address issues for compiling Perl on the
Motorola chipset.
The most recent version of PA-RISC at the time of this document's last
-update is 2.0.
+update is 2.0. HP PA-RISC systems are usually refered to with model
+description "HP 9000".
A complete list of models at the time the OS was built is in the file
/usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models. The first column corresponds to the last
@@ -183,7 +188,7 @@ The current naming convention is:
=head2 Itanium Processor Family 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 v1.6), and with
+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.
@@ -192,6 +197,9 @@ attempt to use a PA-RISC version of Perl on an Itanium system. This is
because shared libraries created on an Itanium system cannot be loaded
while running a PA-RISC executable.
+HP Itanium 2 systems are usually refered to with model description
+"HP Integrity".
+
=head2 Itanium & Itanium 2
HP also ships servers with the 128-bit Itanium processor(s). As of the
@@ -569,6 +577,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.7.2: 2004-12-06
+Version 0.7.3: 2005-03-08
=cut