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- <H1><A NAME="name">NAME</A></H1>
- <P>README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
- <P>This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl
- on OS/390 Unix System Services.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
- <P>This is a fully ported perl for OS/390 Release 3, 5 and 6.
- It may work on other versions, but those are the ones we've
- tested it on.</P>
- <P>You may need to carry out some system configuration tasks before
- running the Configure script for perl.</P>
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- <H2><A NAME="unpacking">Unpacking</A></H2>
- <P>Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at:</P>
- <PRE>
- <A HREF="http://www.s390.ibm.com/products/oe/bpxqp1.html">http://www.s390.ibm.com/products/oe/bpxqp1.html</A></PRE>
- <P>to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this:</P>
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- pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar</PRE>
- <P>
- <H2><A NAME="setup and utilities">Setup and utilities</A></H2>
- <P>Be sure that your yacc installation is in place including any necessary
- parser template files. If you have not already done so then be sure to:</P>
- <PRE>
- cp /samples/yyparse.c /etc</PRE>
- <P>This may also be a good time to ensure that your /etc/protocol file
- and either your /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts files are in place.</P>
- <P>GNU make for OS/390, which may be required for the build of perl,
- is available from:</P>
- <PRE>
- <A HREF="http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm">http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm</A></PRE>
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- <H2><A NAME="configure">Configure</A></H2>
- <P>Once you've unpacked the distribution, run ``sh Configure'' (see INSTALL
- for a full discussion of the Configure options). There is a ``hints'' file
- for os390 that specifies the correct values for most things. Some things
- to watch out for include:</P>
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- Some of the parser default template files in /samples are needed in /etc.
- In particular be sure that you at least copy /samples/yyparse.c to /etc
- before running perl's Configure. This step ensures successful extraction
- of EBCDIC versions of parser files such as perly.c.
- <P></P>
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- This port doesn't support dynamic loading. Although
- OS/390 has support for DLLs, there are some differences
- that cause problems for perl.
- <P></P>
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- You may see a ``WHOA THERE!!!'' message for $d_shmatprototype
- it is OK to keep the recommended ``define''.
- <P></P>
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- Don't turn on the compiler optimization flag ``-O''. There's
- a bug in either the optimizer or perl that causes perl to
- not work correctly when the optimizer is on.
- <P></P>
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- Some of the configuration files in /etc used by the
- networking APIs are either missing or have the wrong
- names. In particular, make sure that there's either
- an /etc/resolv.conf or and /etc/hosts, so that
- <A HREF="../../lib/Pod/perlfunc.html#item_gethostbyname"><CODE>gethostbyname()</CODE></A> works, and make sure that the file
- /etc/proto has been renamed to /etc/protocol (NOT
- /etc/protocols, as used by other Unix systems).
- <P></P></UL>
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- <H2><A NAME="build, test, install">Build, test, install</A></H2>
- <P>Simply put:</P>
- <PRE>
- sh Configure
- make
- make test</PRE>
- <P>if everything looks ok then:</P>
- <PRE>
- make install</PRE>
- <P>this last step may or may not require UID=0 privileges depending
- on how you answered the questions that Configure asked and whether
- or not you have write access to the directories you specified.</P>
- <P>
- <H2><A NAME="usage hints">Usage Hints</A></H2>
- <P>When using perl on OS/390 please keep in mind that the EBCDIC and ASCII
- character sets are different. Perl builtin functions that may behave
- differently under EBCDIC are mentioned in the perlport.pod document.</P>
- <P>OpenEdition (UNIX System Services) does not (yet) support the #! means
- of script invokation.
- See:</P>
- <PRE>
- head `whence perldoc`</PRE>
- <P>for an example of how to use the ``eval exec'' trick to ask the shell to
- have perl run your scripts for you.</P>
- <P>
- <H2><A NAME="extensions">Extensions</A></H2>
- <P>You can build xs based extensions to Perl for OS/390 but will need to
- follow the instructions in ExtUtils::MakeMaker for building statically
- linked perl binaries. In most cases people have reported better
- results with GNU make rather than the system's /bin/make.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="authors">AUTHORS</A></H1>
- <P>David Fiander and Peter Prymmer.</P>
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- <HR>
- <H1><A NAME="see also">SEE ALSO</A></H1>
- <P><EM>INSTALL</EM>, <A HREF="../../lib/Pod/perlport.html">the perlport manpage</A>, <A HREF="../../lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html">the ExtUtils::MakeMaker manpage</A>.</P>
- <P>
- <H2><A NAME="mailing list">Mailing list</A></H2>
- <P>The Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) maintains a perl-mvs
- mailing list of interest to all folks building and/or
- using perl on EBCDIC platforms. To subscibe, send a message of:</P>
- <PRE>
- subscribe perl-mvs</PRE>
- <P>to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@perl.org.">majordomo@perl.org.</A></P>
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- <H1><A NAME="history">HISTORY</A></H1>
- <P>This document was originally written by David Fiander for the 5.005
- release of Perl.</P>
- <P>This document was podified for the 5.005_03 release of perl 11 March 1999.</P>
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