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authorPaul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>2002-05-05 13:15:00 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-05 22:15:48 +0000
commitc71882ca62bae8258b04c568faa83361dbc72d39 (patch)
treeb1939001d5fc59f87396e7c96cb7a95770d3a717 /README.vos
parent3e9ffe509f527252a23d5921dcd6cd5a3671012b (diff)
downloadperl-c71882ca62bae8258b04c568faa83361dbc72d39.tar.gz
Update README.vos and release vos build macros
Message-Id: <200205052114.RAA26329@mailhub2.stratus.com> To: perl5-porters@perl.org p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16419
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diff --git a/README.vos b/README.vos
index 880790865c..624e77e2c1 100644
--- a/README.vos
+++ b/README.vos
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ using the VOS Standard C Cross-compiler. You must build perl on
VOS Release 14.1.0 (or later) on an XA/R or Continuum platform.
This version of perl is properly called "miniperl" because it
-does not contain the full perl functionality.
+does not contain the complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found
in the vos subdirectory.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ perl on VOS Release 14.1.0 (or later) on an XA/R or Continuum
platform.
This version of perl is properly called "miniperl" because it
-does not contain the full perl functionality.
+does not contain the complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found
in the vos subdirectory.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ on VOS Release 14.1.0 (or later) on an XA/R or Continuum
platform.
This version of perl is properly called "miniperl" because it
-does not contain the full perl functionality.
+does not contain the complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found
in the vos subdirectory.
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ in the vos subdirectory.
=item 4
If you have a Stratus Continuum (PARISC-based) platform that is
-running VOS Release 14.3.0 through VOS Release 14.4.0, you must
+running VOS Release 14.3.0 through VOS Release 14.4.1, you must
build perl using the generally-available version of VOS POSIX
support, and using either the VOS Standard C compiler or the VOS
GNU C compiler. You must build perl on VOS Release 14.3.0 (or
later) on a Continuum platform.
This version of perl is properly called "miniperl" because it
-does not contain the full perl functionality.
+does not contain the complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found
in the vos subdirectory.
@@ -96,17 +96,17 @@ in the vos subdirectory.
=item 5
If you have a Stratus Continuum (PA-RISC-based) platform that is
-running VOS Release 14.4.1 or later, you must build perl using
-the generally-available version of VOS POSIX support. You must
-use the VOS GNU C compiler and the VOS GNU Tools product. You
-must build perl on VOS Release 14.4.1 (or later) on a Continuum
-platform.
-
-This version of perl is properly called "full perl" because it
-contains the full perl functionality.
-
-You must use the supplied Configure script and makefiles to build
-perl.
+running VOS Release 14.5.0 or later, you can either use the
+previous method to build "miniperl" or you can build "full
+perl", which contains the complete functionality of perl. I
+strongly recommend that you build full perl. To build full
+perl, you must use the generally-available version of VOS POSIX
+support. You must use the VOS GNU C compiler and the VOS GNU
+C/C++ and GNU Tools Release 2.0.1 product. You must build full
+perl on VOS Release 14.5.0 (or later) on a Continuum platform.
+
+You must build full perl with the compile_full_perl.cm command
+macro found in the vos subdirectory.
=back
@@ -223,20 +223,11 @@ execute on the PA7100, PA8000, PA8500 and PA8600 processors, and
that code compiled for the pa8000 processor type can execute on
the PA8000, PA8500 and PA8600 processors.
-To build perl using the supplied Configure script and makefiles,
-execute the following commands.
-
- !add_library_path command >system>gnu_library>bin -after '(current_dir)'
- !bash
- gzip -d perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
- tar -xvf perl-5.8.0.tar
- cd perl-5.8.0
- Configure -d
- gmake
-
-If you wish to run the test cases, type:
-
- gmake test
+To build full perl using the supplied Configure script and
+makefiles, change to the "vos" subdirectory and type the command
+"compile_full_perl" or "start_process compile_full_perl". This
+will configure, build, and test perl. All of the test cases
+that are executed should pass.
=head2 Installing Perl 5 on VOS
@@ -343,6 +334,6 @@ Paul Green (Paul.Green@stratus.com)
=head1 LAST UPDATE
-February 15, 2001
+May 5, 2002
=cut