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PERLVOS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLVOS(1)
NAME
README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
SYNOPSIS
This file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus VOS operating system.
Perl is a scripting or macro language that is popular on many systems. See perl-
book for a number of good books on Perl.
These are instructions for building Perl from source. Most people can simply down-
load a pre-compiled distribution from the VOS anonymous FTP site. If you are run-
ning VOS Release 14.2.0 or earlier, download Perl from ftp://ftp.stra-
tus.com/pub/vos/posix/alpha/alpha.html If you are running VOS Release 14.3.0 or
later, download Perl from ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/ga.html Instruc-
tions for unbundling the Perl distribution file are at ftp://ftp.stra-
tus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html
If you are running VOS Release 14.4.1 or later, you can obtain a pre-compiled, sup-
ported copy of perl by purchasing Release 2.0.1 (or later) of the VOS GNU C++ and
GNU Tools product from Stratus Technologies.
Multiple methods to build perl for VOS
If you elect to build perl from its source code, you have several different ways
that you can build perl. The method that you use depends on the version of VOS
that you are using and on the architecture of your Stratus hardware platform.
1 If you have a Stratus XA2000 (Motorola 68k-based) platform, you must build
perl using the alpha version of VOS POSIX support and 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 complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found in the vos
subdirectory.
2 If you have a Stratus XA/R (Intel i860-based) platform, you must build perl
using the alpha version of VOS POSIX support and using the VOS Standard C com-
piler or 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 complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found in the vos
subdirectory.
3 If you have a Stratus Continuum (PA-RISC-based) platform that is running a
version of VOS earlier than VOS 14.3.0, you must build perl using the alpha
version of VOS POSIX support and using the VOS Standard C compiler or
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 complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found in the vos
subdirectory.
4 If you have a Stratus Continuum (PA-RISC-based) platform that is 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 complete perl functionality.
You must build perl with the compile_perl.cm command macro found in the vos
subdirectory.
5 If you have a Stratus Continuum (PA-RISC-based) platform that is 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 function-
ality 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 (or later) 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.
Stratus POSIX Support
Note that there are two different implementations of POSIX.1 support on VOS. There
is an alpha version of POSIX that is available from the Stratus anonymous ftp site
( ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/alpha/alpha.html ). There is a generally-
available version of POSIX that comes with VOS Release 14.3.0 or higher. This port
of POSIX will compile and bind with either version of POSIX.
Most of the Perl features should work on VOS regardless of which version of POSIX
that you are using. However, the alpha version of POSIX is missing a number of key
functions, and therefore any attempt by perl.pm to call the following unimplemented
POSIX functions will result in an error message and an immediate and fatal call to
the VOS debugger. They are "dup", "fork", and "waitpid". The lack of these func-
tions prevents you from starting VOS commands and grabbing their output in perl.
The workaround is to run the commands outside of perl, then have perl process the
output file. These functions are all available in the generally-available version
of POSIX.
INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
Before you can build Perl 5 on VOS, you need to have or acquire the following addi-
tional items.
1 The VOS Standard C Compiler (or the VOS Standard C Cross-Compiler) and the VOS
C Runtime. If you are using the generally-available version of POSIX support,
you may instead use the VOS GNU C/C++ Compiler. These are standard Stratus
products.
2 Either the VOS OS TCP/IP or STCP product set. If you are building with the
alpha version of POSIX you need the OS TCP/IP product set. If you are build-
ing with the generally-available version of POSIX you need the STCP product
set. These are standard Stratus products.
3 Either the alpha or generally-available version of the VOS POSIX.1 environ-
ment.
The alpha version of POSIX.1 support is available on the Stratus FTP site.
Login anonymously to ftp.stratus.com and get the file
/pub/vos/posix/alpha/posix.save.evf.gz in binary file-transfer mode. Or use
the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) ftp://ftp.stra-
tus.com/pub/vos/posix/alpha/posix.save.evf.gz from your web browser. Instruc-
tions for unbundling this file are at ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/util-
ity/utility.html This is NOT a standard Stratus product.
In VOS Release 14.3.0, the generally-available version of POSIX.1 support is
bundled with the VOS Standard C compiler (or Standard C Cross-Compiler). In
VOS Release 14.4.0 or higher, it is also bundled with the VOS C Runtime.
These are standard Stratus products.
4 You must compile this version of Perl 5 on VOS Release 14.1.0 or higher
because some of the perl source files contain more than 32,767 source lines.
Due to VOS release-compatibility rules, this port of perl may not execute on
VOS Release 12 or earlier.
5 If you are using the generally-available version of VOS POSIX support, then
you should also acquire the VOS GNU C/C++ Compiler and GNU Tools product.
When perl is built with this version of POSIX support, it assumes that it can
find "bash", "sed" and other POSIX-compatible commands in the directory /sys-
tem/gnu_library/bin.
To build perl using the supplied VOS command macros, change to the "vos" subdirec-
tory and type the command "compile_perl -processor X", where X is the processor
type (mc68020, i80860, pa7100, pa8000) that you wish to use. Note that the gener-
ally-available version of POSIX.1 support is not available for the mc68020 or
i80860 processors.
Use the "-version alpha" control argument to build perl with the alpha version of
POSIX support, and use the "-version ga" control argument to build it with the gen-
erally-available version of POSIX. The default is "ga".
Use the "-compiler cc" control argument to build perl with the VOS Standard C com-
piler. Use the "-compiler gcc" control argument to build it with the GNU GCC com-
piler. The default is "cc".
You must have purchased the VOS Standard C Cross Compiler in order to compile perl
for a processor type that is different from the processor type of the module.
Note that code compiled for the pa7100 processor type can execute on the PA7100,
PA8000, PA8500 and PA8600 processors, and that code compiled for the pa8000 proces-
sor type can execute on the PA8000, PA8500 and PA8600 processors.
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 com-
pile_full_perl". This will configure, build, and test perl.
Installing Perl 5 on VOS
1 If you have built perl using the Configure script, ensure that you have modify
permission to ">system>ported" and type
gmake install
2 If you have built perl using any of the other methods, type
install_perl -processor PROCESSOR -name NAME
where PROCESSOR is mc68020, i80860, pa7100, or pa8000, as appropriate, and NAME
is perl or perl5, according to which name you wish to use.
This command macro will install perl and all of its related files in the proper
directories.
3 While there are currently no architecture-specific extensions or modules dis-
tributed with perl, the following directories can be used to hold such files:
>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.8.0>68k
>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.8.0>860
>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.8.0>7100
>system>ported>lib>perl5>5.8.0>8000
4 Site-specific perl extensions and modules can be installed in one of two
places. Put architecture-independent files into:
>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.8.0
Put site-specific architecture-dependent files into one of the following direc-
tories:
>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.8.0>68k
>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.8.0>860
>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.8.0>7100
>system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>5.8.0>8000
5 You can examine the @INC variable from within a perl program to see the order
in which Perl searches these directories.
USING PERL IN VOS
Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
If perl is built with the alpha version of VOS POSIX.1 support and if it attempts
to call an unimplemented VOS POSIX.1 function, it will print a fatal error message
and enter the VOS debugger. This error is not recoverable. See vos_dummies.c for
a list of the unimplemented POSIX.1 functions. To see what functions are unimple-
mented and what the error message looks like, compile and execute "test_vos_dum-
mies.c".
Restrictions of Perl on VOS
This port of Perl version 5 to VOS prefers Unix-style, slash-separated pathnames
over VOS-style greater-than-separated pathnames. VOS-style pathnames should work
in most contexts, but if you have trouble, replace all greater-than characters by
slash characters. Because the slash character is used as a pathname delimiter,
Perl cannot process VOS pathnames containing a slash character in a directory or
file name; these must be renamed.
This port of Perl also uses Unix-epoch date values internally. As long as you are
dealing with ASCII character string representations of dates, this should not be an
issue. The supported epoch is January 1, 1980 to January 17, 2038.
See the file pod/perlport.pod for more information about the VOS port of Perl.
Handling of underflow and overflow
Prior to VOS Release 14.7.0, VOS does not support automatically mapping overflowed
floating-point values to +infinity, nor automatically mapping underflowed floating-
point values to zero, unlike many other platforms. The Perl pack function has been
modified to perform such mapping in software on VOS. Performing other floating-
point computations that underflow or overflow will probably result in SIGFPE.
Don't push your luck.
As of VOS Release 14.7.0, the VOS POSIX runtime sets up the PA-RISC hardware float-
ing-point status register so that the overflow and underflow exceptions do not
trap, but instead automatically convert the result to infinity or zero, as appro-
priate. As of this writing, there are still floating-point operations that can
trap, for example, subtracting two infinite values. This is recorded as suggestion
posix-1022, which is not yet fixed.
TEST STATUS
When Perl 5.8.3 is built using the native build process on VOS Release 14.7.0 and
GNU C++/GNU Tools 2.0.2a, all but three attempted tests either pass or result in
TODO (ignored) failures. The tests that fail are:
t/io/tell.t, test 28 t/op/pack.t, test 39 lib/Net/ing/t/450_service.t, test 8
SUPPORT STATUS
I'm offering this port "as is". You can ask me questions, but I can't guarantee
I'll be able to answer them. There are some excellent books available on the Perl
language; consult a book seller.
If you want a supported version of perl for VOS, purchase the VOS GNU C++ and GNU
Tools Release 2.0.1 (or later) product from Stratus Technologies, along with a sup-
port contract (or from anyone else who will sell you support).
AUTHOR
Paul Green (Paul.Green AT stratus.com)
LAST UPDATE
January 15, 2004
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