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   1  If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
   2  see. It is written in the POD format (see perlpod manpage) which is
   3  specially designed to be readable as is.
   4  
   5  =head1 NAME
   6  
   7  perluts - Perl under UTS
   8  
   9  =head1 SYNOPSIS
  10  
  11  This document can be read I<as is>: as F<README.uts>, or you
  12  can read it after you build your package using "man perluts".
  13  
  14  The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you
  15  follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in
  16  a solidly working installation.
  17  
  18  =head1 DESCRIPTION
  19  
  20  Perl 5.7.2 (Developmental) or Perl 5.8.x (forthcoming) for UTS
  21  
  22  =head1 BUILDING PERL ON UTS
  23  
  24  NOTE: Some sites have redefined the way uname works, and if yours
  25  does this, special steps must be taken so that Configure can
  26  recognize your system as a UTS system.  To see if you are in
  27  this category, issue the command "uname -a".  It should look
  28  something like:
  29  
  30    uts juno 4 4.4 9672 370
  31  
  32  At any rate, the first field should be "uts".  If this is not
  33  the case; supposing it is, say telcoUTS, create a script, uts/uname
  34  (i.e. uname, in the subdirectory "uts" of the main Perl source dir):
  35     # uname
  36     /usr/bin/uname "$@" | sed -e 's/^telcoUTS/uts/'
  37  
  38  and when you execute Configure, do it as below, except for adding
  39  PATH=uts:$PATH as a prefix.  I.e. do:
  40  
  41     PATH=uts:$PATH ./Configure ...
  42  
  43  There is no need to do an interactive configure, just type
  44  
  45    ./Configure -de [-Dusedevel] [-Doptimize=-g ] 2>&1 | tee Conf.out
  46  
  47  "-Dusedevel" may be required to configure Perl 5.7.2 non-interactively.
  48  Use -Doptimize=-g if you want to run Perl under sdb or gdb, OR
  49  if you want to be able to use the -D command line flags to perl,
  50  which are occasionally useful in debugging perl scripts.
  51  
  52  In this and the following steps, the "2>&1 | tee XXX.out" records all
  53  output from the process, which will be useful if anything unexpected
  54  goes wrong.
  55  
  56  Then do the compilation with
  57  
  58    make 2>&1 | tee make.out
  59  
  60  Finally, test using
  61  
  62    make test 2>&1 | tee make-test.out
  63  
  64  In the output, the only failures you should see should look like:
  65  
  66     lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.........Use of uninitialized value ...
  67     FAILED at test 57
  68     lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintc..........ok
  69     lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.........FAILED at test 204
  70     lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf...........Use of uninitialized value ...
  71     Illegal division by zero at ../lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm line 314.
  72     FAILED at test 71
  73     lib/Math/Complex...................exp: OVERFLOW
  74     FAILED at test 250
  75     lib/Math/Trig......................exp: OVERFLOW
  76     ok
  77     lib/Memoize/t/array................ok
  78         ...
  79     lib/Net/protoent...................ok
  80     lib/Net/servent....................FAILED at test 0
  81  
  82  This means that everything passes except for some problems in the
  83  packages "Math::BigInt", "Math::Complex", and "Math::Trig".
  84  The lib/Net/servent failure seems to be a bug in the test
  85  program.  To confirm this, from the main Perl source dir, do:
  86  
  87     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` ./perl -Ilib lib/Net/servent.t
  88  
  89  and it should output
  90  
  91     1..3
  92     ok 1
  93     ok 2
  94     ok 3
  95  
  96  =head1 Installing the built perl on UTS
  97  
  98  Run the command "make install"
  99  
 100  =head1 AUTHOR
 101  
 102     Hal Morris
 103     UTS Global LLC
 104     email: hom00@utsglobal.com
 105  
 106  =cut
 107