perluts

perluts - Perl under UTS

This document can be read as is: as \s-1README\s0.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using “man perluts”.

The purpose is to help you build Perl for \s-1UTS\s0, which, if you follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in a solidly working installation.

Perl 5.7.2 (Developmental) or Perl 5.8.x (forthcoming) for \s-1UTS\s0

\s-1NOTE:\s0 Some sites have redefined the way uname works, and if yours does this, special steps must be taken so that Configure can recognize your system as a \s-1UTS\s0 system. To see if you are in this category, issue the command “uname -a”. It should look something like:

uts juno 4 4.4 9672 370

At any rate, the first field should be “uts”. If this is not the case; supposing it is, say telcoUTS, create a script, uts/uname (i.e. uname, in the subdirectory “uts” of the main Perl source dir): # uname /usr/bin/uname “$@” | sed -e 's/^telcoUTS/uts/'

and when you execute Configure, do it as below, except for adding PATH=uts:$PATH as a prefix. I.e. do:

PATH=uts:$PATH ./Configure ...

There is no need to do an interactive configure, just type

./Configure -de [-Dusedevel] [-Doptimize=-g ] 2>&1 | tee Conf.out

“-Dusedevel” may be required to configure Perl 5.7.2 non-interactively. Use -Doptimize=-g if you want to run Perl under sdb or gdb, \s-1OR\s0 if you want to be able to use the -D command line flags to perl, which are occasionally useful in debugging perl scripts.

In this and the following steps, the “2>&1 | tee \s-1XXX\s0.out” records all output from the process, which will be useful if anything unexpected goes wrong.

Then do the compilation with

make 2>&1 | tee make.out

Finally, test using

make test 2>&1 | tee make-test.out

In the output, the only failures you should see should look like:

lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.........Use of uninitialized value ... FAILED at test 57 lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintc..........ok lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.........FAILED at test 204 lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf...........Use of uninitialized value ... Illegal division by zero at ../lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm line 314. FAILED at test 71 lib/Math/Complex...................exp: OVERFLOW FAILED at test 250 lib/Math/Trig......................exp: OVERFLOW ok lib/Memoize/t/array................ok ... lib/Net/protoent...................ok lib/Net/servent....................FAILED at test 0

This means that everything passes except for some problems in the packages “Math::BigInt”, “Math::Complex”, and “Math::Trig”. The lib/Net/servent failure seems to be a bug in the test program. To confirm this, from the main Perl source dir, do:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` ./perl -Ilib lib/Net/servent.t

and it should output

1..3 ok 1 ok 2 ok 3

Run the command “make install”

Hal Morris UTS Global LLC email: hom00@utsglobal.com