Perl question??

[John McDen]

I can just download perl from www.perl.com or do I need to download it from specific site for HP-UX??

Is there a diff in perl for HP-UX v/s Other UNIX ??

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

5.6.1 for 11.0/11i can be downloaded for free from www.software.hp.com

https://software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/try.pl?productNumber=PERL&date=

[S.K. Chan]

..sorry .. again ..

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=search&group_name=perl&search_free=1

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[Duncan Edmonstone]

No, not really, its just a question of waht you *trust* - if you are really paranoid you should download & compile the source, If you are mildly paranoid download the version from software.hp.com, if you really don't care then get it from anywhere.... oh and you might end up with a slightly different release version.

Personally I always use the version from software.hp.com

HTH

Duncan

[harry d brown jr]

If you want a prebuilt perl, use:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.6.1/

You can also download the source from the HP porting site and "build" it yourself, providing you have a "c" compiler.


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harry

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

HP's prebuild perl versions are all compiled with the 32bit GNU C compiler and this perl supports threads.

If you have HP C-ANSI-C (not the bundled C compiler, but the commercial one), and you want to add XS modules to perl (modules that also have components in XS (c)), it's wise to build perl yourself.

Major modules have prebuilt binaries available on the web. I've just uploaded the perl/Tk port http://www.xs4all.nl/~procura/800.024-HPUX- 11.00-hppa1.1-gcc.tgz which should fit to the perl as shipped with HP

# cd /opt/perl
# gzip -d < /tmp/800.024-HPUX-11.00-hppa1.1-gcc.tgz | tar xf -

rebuilt both perl-5.6.1 and Tk with gcc-3.0.4/32 on 11.00

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi John

Stable.tar at perl.com is a good and working source , are you installing it with cc or with gcc ?


Manoj Srivastava