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6 perlvos - Perl for Stratus OpenVOS
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9 This file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus OpenVOS
10 operating system. Perl is a scripting or macro language that is
11 popular on many systems. See perlbook for a number of good books on
12 Perl.
13 These are instructions for building Perl from source. This version of
15 Perl requires the dynamic linking support that is found in OpenVOS
16 Release 17.1 and thus is not supported on OpenVOS Release 17.0 or
17 earlier releases.
18 If you are running VOS Release 14.4.1 or later, you can obtain a pre-
20 compiled, supported copy of perl by purchasing the GNU Tools product
21 from Stratus Technologies.
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24 To build perl from its source code on the Stratus V Series platform you
25 must have OpenVOS Release 17.1.0 or later, GNU Tools Release 3.5 or
26 later, and the C/POSIX Runtime Libraries.
27 Follow the normal instructions for building perl; e.g, enter bash, run
29 the Configure script, then use "gmake" to build perl.
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32 1. After you have built perl using the Configure script, ensure that
33 you have modify and default write permission to ">system>ported"
34 and all subdirectories. Then type
35 gmake install
37 2. While there are currently no architecture-specific extensions or
39 modules distributed with perl, the following directories can be
40 used to hold such files (replace the string VERSION by the
41 appropriate version number):
42 >system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>i786
44 3. Site-specific perl extensions and modules can be installed in one
46 of two places. Put architecture-independent files into:
47 >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION
49 Put site-specific architecture-dependent files into one of the
51 following directories:
52 >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>i786
54 4. You can examine the @INC variable from within a perl program to see
56 the order in which Perl searches these directories.
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59 Restrictions of Perl on OpenVOS
60 This port of Perl version 5 prefers Unix-style, slash-separated
61 pathnames over OpenVOS-style greater-than-separated pathnames.
62 OpenVOS-style pathnames should work in most contexts, but if you have
63 trouble, replace all greater-than characters by slash characters.
64 Because the slash character is used as a pathname delimiter, Perl
65 cannot process OpenVOS pathnames containing a slash character in a
66 directory or file name; these must be renamed.
67 This port of Perl also uses Unix-epoch date values internally. As long
69 as you are dealing with ASCII character string representations of
70 dates, this should not be an issue. The supported epoch is January 1,
71 1980 to January 17, 2038.
72 See the file pod/perlport.pod for more information about the OpenVOS
74 port of Perl.
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77 A number of the perl self-tests fails for various reasons; generally
78 these are minor and due to subtle differences between common POSIX-
79 based environments and the OpenVOS POSIX environment. Ensure that you
80 conduct sufficient testing of your code to guarantee that it works
81 properly in the OpenVOS environment.
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84 I'm offering this port "as is". You can ask me questions, but I can't
85 guarantee I'll be able to answer them. There are some excellent books
86 available on the Perl language; consult a book seller.
87 If you want a supported version of perl for OpenVOS, purchase the
89 OpenVOS GNU Tools product from Stratus Technologies, along with a
90 support contract (or from anyone else who will sell you support).
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93 Paul Green (Paul.Green@stratus.com)
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96 February 28, 2013
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