perluts - Perl under UTS

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- BUILDING PERL ON UTS
- Installing the built perl on UTS
- AUTHOR

# NAME

perluts - Perl under UTS

# SYNOPSIS

This document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using ``man perluts''.

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

# DESCRIPTION

Perl 5.7.2 (Developmental) or Perl 5.8.x (forthcoming) for UTS

# BUILDING PERL ON UTS

NOTE: 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 UTS 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, OR 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 XXX.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

# Installing the built perl on UTS

Run the command ``make install''

# AUTHOR

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

perluts - Perl under UTS