perl-5.9.5 has been released

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Andrew Young_2]

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

[Court Campbell]

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

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Merijn:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[Court Campbell]

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.

[David Bellamy]

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

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Matti_Kurkela]

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

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Richard T. Malafa]

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

[Dennis Handly]

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

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