topic Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released in Operating System - Linux

perl-5.9.5 has been released

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:50:12 GMT

Though still in the development branch, this is a major landmark, as 5.9.5 is supposed to be what will be 5.10.0

If all goes well, we'll have a shiny new 5.10 early September.

I'm prepared to make full binary distributions available under a big red warning sign, that it is still devel. But I/we at perl5-porters want feedback for real-life environments. For most systems we already know it builds out of the box and passes all tests (extra pass reports are OK), but what I'm looking for is people that wouls like to start off with a binary build, maybe add one-or-two of their favourite modules that I don't (yet) include in my distributions and test that on real-life applications and feedback us the results.

It's quite a lot of work, so please tell me if you're interested, what OS and/or architecture to do first?

HP-UX 10.20 PA 2.0 32bit
HP-UX 11.00 PA 2.0 32bit
HP-UX 11.00 PA 2.0 64bit
HP-UX 11.11 PA 2.0 32bit
HP-UX 11.11 PA 2.0 64bit
HP-UX 11.23 PA 2.0 32bit
HP-UX 11.23 PA 2.0 63bit
HP-UX 11.23 IA 32bit
HP-UX 11.23 IA 64bit

(no, we do not (yet) have 11.3x)
All of the above possible with HP C-ANSI-C or GNU gcc (recent)

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

Andrew Young_2 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:00:27 GMT

Hi Merijn.

My vote goes for HP-UX 11.23 IA 64-bit although the 63-bit 11.23 PA 2.0 does sound interesting.

Second choice will be 11.11 PA 64-bit.

Regards

Andrew Y

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

Court Campbell — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:22:14 GMT

I think Merijn was just trying to see if anyone would actually pay attention.

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:32:16 GMT

Yes, that, and if there is any interrest at all.
I won't build any without anyone really going to use it.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:38:49 GMT

Hi Merijn:

Aha, that "HP-UX 11.23 PA 2.0 63bit" one you list sounds interesting :-))

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

Court Campbell — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:02:20 GMT

I would be interested in the 10.20. That may sound like a joke, but I am serious. I hate to admit that I still have 10.20 running.

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

David Bellamy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:17:21 GMT

I will like the 11.23 PA 2.0 64bit and 11.23 IA 64 bit

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:37:44 GMT

Court, you're just a bit (too) late. I have powered off the 10.20 system yesterday, because we need it's physical space for some infrastructural changes.

It will be back on in about 4 weeks, after my holiday.

I'll see what I can do about the other(s) before my holiday.

BTW *useful* feedback on actual use of 5.9.5 will receive bunnies.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:41:39 GMT

The bulk of our systems are 11.11 and 11.23, practically all 64bit.

Unfortunately, I often need DBI and Oracle-DBD to get some vendor-provided scripts to work. This combination is sure to win a lot of votes if one were trying to choose the Least Favourite Perl Module.

Testing DBD-Oracle has quite a few pre-requisites, and I don't even think perl5-porters should do that.

But would it be possible to document the basic "DBD-Oracle-potential" of any binary distributions? Or at least document the compile-time options so that they can be viewed before downloading the binary distribution?

Ideally, I'm thinking/hoping of indications like this:

- no: This binary distribution of Perl was compiled with some options that are known to make it unusable with DBD-Oracle. If you need it, just download the source distribution instead of wasting your time with this binary.

- maybe: This binary distribution was compiled with options that *should* allow compiling DBD-Oracle for it (according to DBD-Oracle documentation).
However, nobody is promising anything.

- yes: some kind soul actually sent in a report of a successful DBD-Oracle installation using this binary distribution of Perl.

Of course, simply making the output of "perl -V" available on the download page of the distribution might be useful for more than just DBD-Oracle users.

MK

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:07:31 GMT

FYI *ALL* my builds are ready for use with DBD::Oracle.

What is needed for it is well documented in README.hpux

# man perlhpux

I /think/ that all HP porting center builds also do it `the right way' (TM)

Basically, the easiest chack is this:

# perl -V:libs
libs='-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -ldb -ldl -ldld -lm -lsec -lc';

If this starts with '-lcl -lpthread' you are safe.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

Richard T. Malafa — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:24:16 GMT

Based on the total number of HP-UX machines here at this installation. Definitely
HP-UX 11.11 PA 2.0 64 Bit. Not many of the N4000 machines to do 11i v2 (11.23) yet coming back from the government installations. Have one brand new rx2660 with 11.23 on it but that's it..

32 bit anything. Forget it..

Also on another Note. Your suggestion on the +b replaced with -Wl,+b was excellent. Hardy came back with the same suggestion this morning & I gave him 8 pts but you get 10 pts for thinking of it first.

Going to do it here. Still can't find the !#$%% library. Got today only before they might abandon the project.

Thank You
Rich

Re: perl-5.9.5 has been released

Dennis Handly — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:43:21 GMT

>Rich: Your suggestion on the +b ...

See your thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1156610