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Merijn's HP-UX software for ITRC members

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This page with info and software for the HP ITRC forum members, gathered and compiled by H.Merijn (BR41967 - procura) can be found on www.cmve.net, kindly provided by Clemens van Everdingen, www.hpux.ws kindly provided by Steven E. Protter, and on perl.org kindly provided by the nice people at perl.org, who take donations here. Now that the site has grown to a whopping 9.0 Gb, 1300+ files, and a throughput of over 75 Gb each month on average, I should be extremely grateful for the space and bandwidth provided by these nice people.

When bookmarking this site, please use the perl.org link, since it has a much higher bandwidth available than the other three.

I'll just keep it to these pages, and hope it will suffice. Though I notice that the main page gets longer and longer. I have split it into sections and pages already, but might split up more in the near future. Please ask questions through the forum.

• It is unavoidable, yet quite natural, that the site will appear differently styled to various users. That is because software is imperfect, and some applications are better than others. I do not support any browser. I chose to follow the path of web standards. The more conformant your software is, the better it will be at rendering my site.
  That is why this page is best viewed with Opera or Firefox. Safari, Chrome, Mozilla, K-meleon, or Beonex, and even Amaya. Lynx, or w3m should be safe. When using M$-IE, expect blue screens (but you expect those anyway). I considered setting this page as navy on purple for M$-IE users to discourage it's use, but decided against it, as you obviously already have one problem too many ☺
• Consider HP Porting Center for other software or more recent updates.
• Have a look at DSPP developers edge and GCC binaries
• The ITRC Forum Etiquette by Patrick Wallek should be mandatory reading for all ITRC members too

All communications about this place please through the ITRC forum, so we all can learn.

Perl

Introductions to Perl

For those that are not (yet) comfortable with Perl, Wendy van Dijk has put up a nice article on use.perl.org titled "Where and how to start learning Perl".

Distributions

Here are binary perl distributions for versions 5.8.0 through 5.14.1 prepared for Oracle (meaning that you should be able to build DBD::Oracle using this perl, but that it is not included in these builds) built with GNU gcc. HP C-ANSI-C builds on request, but you should be able to do these yourself.

As by accidental mistake, I have built all 5.8.7 and 5.8.8 distributions with -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV. This can cause a binary incompatibility (but is was said by insiders that the chance on that is actually close to zero), and also may cause some modules to misbehave. A report was sent, that proved that e.g. the module version does not behave correctly. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this, and have put new 5.8.8 build up that not suffer this flaw. Choose carefully.

• As of perl-5.8.2, I only ship builds where defined-or is integrated. This feature is standard in perl-5.10.x;
• The 64bit versions have some test problems with Date::Calc. These are already passed on to their maintainers. This proved to be a bug in GNU gcc's optimizer. As of perl-5.8.5, Date-Calc is shipped with optimization set to -O0, which makes all tests pass. In newer perls these problems do no occur anymore;
• No SSL and XML stuff in 11.00/64, 11.11/32, and 11.23/32, because I don't have matching libraries. The HP Porting center has told me that they are awaiting new hardware, which will enable them to ship 64bit packages pretty soon now;
• As of 5.8.7, SSL and XML stuff is included in the 10.20 builds, but expat and OpenSSL are expected to be installed for this to work;
• Tk is now 804.029, which builds out of the box now on HP-UX 11.00. Tk-TreeGraph now included after the author has fixed the code to match the standards;
• Perl 5.8.9 was released on 15 Dec 2008;
• Perl 5.10.0 has been released on 18 Dec 2007;
• Perl 5.10.1 has been released on 22 Aug 2009;
• Perl 5.12.0 has been released on 13 Apr 2010;
• Perl 5.12.1 has been released on 18 May 2010;
• Perl 5.12.2 has been released on 06 Sep 2010;
• Perl 5.12.3 has been released on 21 Jan 2011;
• Perl 5.12.4 has been released on 20 Jun 2011;
• Perl 5.14.0 has been released on 14 May 2011;
• Perl 5.14.1 has been released on 16 Jun 2011.
• Perl 5.14.2 has been released on 26 Sep 2011.
• Perl 5.16.0 is planned for May 2012

Release info:

Jarkko Hietaniemi also runs a site for CPAN with the links to perl binaries for HP and other Operating Systems.

My builds are different from the default HP distribution. I've included a different set of (IMHO) useful modules (versions might vary across the different builds). Some of these come as default in the CORE set of modules, others are fetched from CPAN. The versions mentioned in the table are just a guide of where I started choosing modules to include. The actual versions included are the versions that are current at the moment I release:

There's no guarantee I didn't throw in one or two other useful modules that are not listed. And some modules might not be buildable in 64bit perl for whatever reason. You'll have to find out yourself. One way to see what is included in the build is:

  # /opt/perl/bin/perldoc perllocal

To see the actual installed version of a module (if available):

  # perl -MV=Some::Module
  # perl -MV=Tk,Text::CSV_XS

If there proves to be need for extra modules that sometimes prove hard to be built, like Tk, I might add them here.

Installation

Install from compressed archives

To install it, do something similar to:

  # cd /opt
  # bzip2 -d </tmp/perl-5.8.3-gcc-3.3.2-11.00-elf64-ora.tbz | tar xvf -

And add /opt/perl64/bin to your $PATH, preferably in /etc/PATH, but be sure to put it before /usr/contrib/bin, where old perls might live.

Install from Software Depots

Medio March 2005, I started experimenting with converting my distributions to software depots, the way HP's porting center ships them. The first effort has lead to a deport that contains perl-5.8.6-dor for HP-UX 11.00 both the 32bit and the 64bit build. In a depot, you can force the destination folder, and swinstall registers the installed software, which has obviously some advantages. To install it, use something similar to:

  # swinstall -s /tmp/perl-5.14.1-11.23.sd perl

which will install both 32bit perl (/opt/perl32) and 64bit perl (/opt/perl64), but it still won't alter /etc/PATH, for reason that I cannot predict which version you are going to use by default. If you prefer to install only one of the two versions:

  # swinstall -s /tmp/perl-5.12.2-11.23-ipf.sd perl.perl5-32
  # swinstall -s /tmp/perl-5.12.2-11.23-ipf.sd perl.perl5-64

Since there is no need for the files to be of any specific user, I did not set it to a specific user ID. Just for housekeeping, you might want to consider 'chown -R root:sys /opt/perl*' after installation.

Installing or updating modules from CPAN

Installing modules is most easily done using cpan, the command line interface to CPAN:

  # cpan Moose Text::CSV_XS
  

Will install Moose (including all its dependencies in the correct order), and update Text::CSV_XS.

Statistics

ITRC Statistics

ITRC forum statistics ended on 22 June 2011 as the forum moved to an inferior new passport controlled site.

Site statistics

And I've collected some stats from three sites, which shows that I'm fulfilling the need of at least a few people with these pages ☺

The fastest mirror provides me statistics on a daily basis by e-mail.

Beepz hasn't been accessible for ages, so I removed the links.

And the top 25 of overall downloaded files (statistics not included). Minus signs do not mean that the file is not downloaded, but only shows that that file did not make it to the reported top-n downloads of that site.

Development

All builds and ports are developed locally on the machines available:

• HP 9000/rx2660/2, HP-UX 11.31
• HP 9000/rx1620/2, HP-UX 11.23
• HP 9000/rp3410/2, HP-UX 11.11
• HP 9000/rp2470/2, HP-UX 11.00
• HP 9000/D390/1, HP-UX 10.20

All using both the latest available HP C-ANSI-C compiler and/or the GNU gcc C compiler installed (probably a relative recent port).

As our last customers are now upgrading to 11.11 or higher, the 10.20 machine is just used for tests and porting. When it dies, it won't be fixed or replaced. Urgent calls have to hurry. The same might happen to the 11.00 machine once there are no customers left to service from it.

Don't worry about existing stuff. I will not remove what's already here. But when bitrot breaks existing downloads, I won't be able to replace them.

The Download section has moved to a separate page.

Assorted useful/useless links

• CPAN module search
• File formats
• PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expression library that puts power in your C sources
• Who can live without Samba
• ... or X-Term, now with full Unicode support
• Latest Perl snapshots
• Install Cygwin to turn your PC workstation into something actually worth using

A list of my favorite utils, and (one of) their (hopefully still valid) source link(s)

Other ITRC member contributions

• A. Clay Stephenson's Date Hammer Shell version or Perl version. Sorry to Clay for the long time I misspelled it as caldj;
• Martin Gansser has also set up a page for HP-UX ports titled: HPUX parisc programs, multimedia
• Steven Pritchard has done some porting work on older hpux systems in the past, and the fruits of his effort is still available here.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

© H.Merijn Brand [ 21 Jan 2012 ]