topic Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31 in Operating System - Linux

Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

PatRoy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:36:29 GMT

Hi. I'm having a heck of a hard time to get Perl to compile on HP-UX 11.31.

Ether it be with Perl 5.8.8 or Perl 5.10.0, with either GCC 4.2.1 from HP's DSPP site or GCC 4.2.3 from the 3rd party HP-UX porting centre (http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/), I keep ending up with the same problem: seems like it's the Time::HiRes module that doesn't want to compile.

See: http://pastebin.ca/964784

Does anyone have any clue has to what's going on?? Some libs missing or something?

Thanks a lot. Pat.

Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

Tim Nelson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:43:35 GMT

Why not use the HP packaged Perl found here ?

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=PERL

Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

PatRoy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:54:17 GMT

Well, for one thing, I don't like the fact the it installs under /opt/perl_32 and /opt/perl_64. We'll sometimes have multiple versions of perl installs, thus the reason I like to have it like /opt/perl-5.8.8.

Secondly, I've just always had a hell of a hard time compiling some additional modules (like DBD/DBI, OpenSP, etc.) when I wasn't the one who compile perl initially. Often modules seems to depend on the way perl was compile. Sometimes, with missing flags, other times, with the wrong compiler (module might expect gcc but it was compiled with ANSI/C). This DID happen to me a while back when I had done it on 11.11.

Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:01:49 GMT

I have contacted the author of Time::HiRes.
I hope to be able to come back on this very soon.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

PatRoy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:05:57 GMT

Thank you :)

Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

PatRoy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:34:58 GMT

Seems like I found the solution...

Had to vi perl-5.10.0/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.xs and go to line 74 and comment out the following 3 defines:

/* HP-UX has CLOCK_XXX values but as enums, not as defines.
* The only way to detect these would be to test compile for each. */
# ifdef __hpux
# define CLOCK_REALTIME CLOCK_REALTIME
# define CLOCK_VIRTUAL CLOCK_VIRTUAL
# define CLOCK_PROFILE CLOCK_PROFILE
# endif /* # ifdef __hpux */

Seems it wanted to redefine the constant or something while it wasn't supposed to, cause I'm guessing like it says, HP-UX already has them, but has enums. I ain't no C programmer here, so I can't really explain! Trial and error! ;)

Thanks all!
Pat

Re: Compiling Perl on HP-UX 11.31

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:36:13 GMT

ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/Time-HiRes-1.9713.tar.gz

is the new version, and it tested out without problems on HP-UX 11.31 Itanium

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn