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diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index f99096485c..dd11e49c33 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -201,10 +201,13 @@ library that is already linked into perl. Some extensions, like DB_File and Compress::Zlib use/require prebuilt libraries for the perl extensions/modules to work. If these libraries -are built using the default configuration, it might happen that you run -into an error like "invalid loader fixup" during load phase. HP is aware -of this problem and address it at - http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,,392!0!,00.html +are built using the default configuration, it might happen that you +run into an error like "invalid loader fixup" during load phase. +HP is aware of this problem. Search the HP-UX cxx-dev forums for +discussions about the subject. The short answer is that B<everything> +(all libraries, everything) must be compiled with C<+z> or C<+Z> to be +PIC (position independent code). In HP-UX 11.00 or newer the linker +error message should tell the name of the offending object file. A more general approach is to intervene manually, as with an example for the DB_File module, which requires SleepyCat's libdb.sl: |