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.IX Title "PERLVOS 1"
.TH PERLVOS 1 "2011-09-26" "perl v5.14.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
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.SH "NAME"
README.vos \- Perl for Stratus VOS
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
This file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus \s-1VOS\s0
operating system.  Perl is a scripting or macro language that is
popular on many systems.  See perlbook for a number of good
books on Perl.
.PP
These are instructions for building Perl from source.  This version of
Perl is not supported on \s-1VOS\s0 Release 14.2 or earlier releases.  If you
have a Continuum platform running \s-1VOS\s0 Release 14.3 through 14.7,
download Perl from the Stratus Anonymous \s-1FTP\s0 site at
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/continuum/continuum.html.  If
you have a V Series platform running \s-1VOS\s0 Release 15.0 or later, or if
you have a V Series platform running OpenVOS Release 17.0 or later,
download Perl from
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/v\-series/v\-series.html.  The
perl distribution files on the Stratus anonymous \s-1FTP\s0 site are stored
in a format called a \*(L"bundled file\*(R".  Instructions for unbundling the
Perl distribution file are at
ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/utility/utility.html.
.PP
If you are running \s-1VOS\s0 Release 14.4.1 or later, you can obtain a
pre-compiled, supported copy of perl by purchasing Release 2.0.1
(or later) of the \s-1VOS\s0 \s-1GNU\s0 C/\*(C+ and \s-1GNU\s0 Tools product from
Stratus Technologies.
.SH "BUILDING PERL FOR VOS"
.IX Header "BUILDING PERL FOR VOS"
To build perl from its source code on the Stratus Continuum
platform, you must be have \s-1VOS\s0 Release 14.5.0 or later, the \s-1STCP\s0
product, and the \s-1GNU\s0 C/\*(C+ and \s-1GNU\s0 Tools, Release 2.0.1 or
later.  On the V Series platform you must have \s-1VOS\s0 Release
15.0.0 or later, and any version of the \s-1GNU\s0 C/\*(C+ and \s-1GNU\s0 Tools
product.
.PP
To build full perl using the supplied Configure script and
makefiles, change to the \*(L"vos\*(R" subdirectory and type the command
\&\*(L"compile_full_perl\*(R" or \*(L"start_process compile_full_perl\*(R".  This
will configure, build, and test perl.
.SH "INSTALLING PERL IN VOS"
.IX Header "INSTALLING PERL IN VOS"
.IP "1." 4
If you have built perl using the Configure script, ensure that
you have modify and default write permission to \f(CW\*(C`>system>ported\*(C'\fR and all subdirectories.  Then type
.Sp
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\&     gmake install
.Ve
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While there are currently no architecture-specific extensions or
modules distributed with perl, the following directories can be
used to hold such files (replace the string \s-1VERSION\s0 by the
appropriate version number):
.Sp
.Vb 3
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>7100
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>8000
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>i786
.Ve
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Site-specific perl extensions and modules can be installed in one of
two places.  Put architecture-independent files into:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION
.Ve
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following directories:
.Sp
.Vb 3
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>7100
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>8000
\&     >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>i786
.Ve
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You can examine the \f(CW@INC\fR variable from within a perl program
to see the order in which Perl searches these directories.
.SH "USING PERL IN VOS"
.IX Header "USING PERL IN VOS"
.SS "Restrictions of Perl on \s-1VOS\s0"
.IX Subsection "Restrictions of Perl on VOS"
This port of Perl version 5 to \s-1VOS\s0 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 \s-1VOS\s0 pathnames containing a slash
character in a directory or file name; these must be renamed.
.PP
This port of Perl also uses Unix-epoch date values internally.
As long as you are dealing with \s-1ASCII\s0 character string
representations of dates, this should not be an issue.  The
supported epoch is January 1, 1980 to January 17, 2038.
.PP
See the file pod/perlport.pod for more information about the \s-1VOS\s0
port of Perl.
.SS "Handling of underflow and overflow"
.IX Subsection "Handling of underflow and overflow"
Prior to \s-1VOS\s0 Release 14.7.0, \s-1VOS\s0 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 \s-1VOS\s0.  Performing
other floating-point computations that underflow or overflow
will probably result in \s-1SIGFPE\s0.  Don't push your luck.
.PP
As of \s-1VOS\s0 Release 14.7.0 or later, the \s-1VOS\s0 \s-1POSIX\s0 runtime sets up
the PA-RISC and \s-1IA\-32\s0 hardware floating-point status register so
that the overflow and underflow exceptions do not trap, but
instead automatically convert the result to infinity or zero, as
appropriate.  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 has
been fixed in \s-1VOS\s0 Release 15.2 and higher.
.SH "TEST STATUS"
.IX Header "TEST STATUS"
When Perl 5.9.0 is built using the native build process on \s-1VOS\s0
Release 14.7.0 and \s-1GNU\s0 \*(C+/GNU Tools 2.0.2a, all but nine
attempted tests either pass or result in \s-1TODO\s0 (ignored)
failures.  The tests that fail are:
.PP
t/io/dup, test 2
t/io/tell, test 28
t/op/pack, test 0
ext/B/t/bytecode, test 1
ext/Devel/Peek/t/Peek, test 1
ext/Encode/t/enc_module, test 1
ext/IO/t/io_dup, test 2
lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Unix, test 94
lib/Net/ing/t/450_service, test 8
.SH "SUPPORT STATUS"
.IX Header "SUPPORT STATUS"
I'm offering this port \*(L"as is\*(R".  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.
.PP
If you want a supported version of perl for \s-1VOS\s0, purchase the
\&\s-1VOS\s0 \s-1GNU\s0 C/\*(C+ and \s-1GNU\s0 Tools Release 2.0.1 (or later) product from
Stratus Technologies, along with a support contract (or from
anyone else who will sell you support).
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Paul Green (Paul.Green@stratus.com)
.SH "LAST UPDATE"
.IX Header "LAST UPDATE"
October 6, 2010