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As the most popular web programming language (due to its facility with text manipulation and rapid development cycle), Perl is a high-level programming language created and enhanced by the Open Source community. Perl takes the best features from other languages (including C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC) and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking, and world wide web programming. These strengths make it especially popular with system administrators and CGI script authors. HP has engineered this high quality Perl with ActiveState so it is optimized for the HP-UX operating system for HP-UX 11.0/11i PA-RISC and HP-UX 11i with Intel® Itanium® processors.
The Perl versions available for download are 5.8.7 and 5.8.8. They are built using HP C/C++ Compilers. 32-bit and 64-bit perl can be installed independently with the default being 32-bit.
A couple of added features in the perl versions currently available are
- The perl versions are built using libcl.2, to allow building DBI and DBD::Oracle modules without having to set
LD_PRELOAD variable to /usr/lib/libcl.2.
- User-compiled perl modules can now be added to the
vendor_perl directory under /opt/perl_32/lib and /opt/perl_64/lib.
If you need to use the SSL functionality, you may have to download and install OpenSSL if it is not already on your system.
Perl is available as an always-installed product on all HP-UX 11i Foundation Operating Environment media.
System requirements
| Perl version |
Package size |
| 5.8.7 (11.00 and 11.11 PA depot) |
54087680 bytes |
| 5.8.7 (11.23 IA/PA dual depot) |
104560640 bytes |
| 5.8.8 (11.00 PA depot) |
55296000 bytes |
| 5.8.8 (11.11 PA depot) |
62126080 bytes |
| 5.8.8 (11.23 and 11.31 IA/PA dual depot) |
117442560 bytes |
License
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» Download Perl
Installation instructions
- Login as root.
- After you have downloaded the Perl depot file, move it to the /tmp directory.
- Verify that the file has downloaded correctly using swlist.
Note: swlist and swinstall require you to specify the full path name to the source depot.
swlist -d @ /tmp/<perl-depot-file>
- On a stand-alone system, run swinstall to install the product:
swinstall -s /tmp/<perl-depot-file> perl
- After installing read the release notes located at
/opt/perl/html/RELEASE.html.
Support solution for perl
Perl has an open distribution policy; the Open Source community and its many users support Perl through forums and newsgroups. HP offers support service for Perl for customers with a valid HP-UX software contract.
Obsolescence plan for Perl
The support for HP-UX 11.0 ended December 2006. As a result, going forward, perl bits for 11.0 will not be refreshed on the web. The last released perl depots on 11.0 for perl version 5.8.7 and 5.8.8 are D.5.8.7.A and D.5.8.8.A respectively.
Compiler for module builds
In perl v5.8.7, the default compiler used for building is HP C. To change the compiler used, do the following:
- Login as root.
- Run
/opt/perl/bin/change_config_pm cc|gcc
to change the compiler to HP C or gcc.
In perl v5.8.8, the compiler which is available on your system will be used for subsequent module builds. If both HP ANSI C and gcc compilers are available on your system, HP ANSI C compiler will be used. If neither is available, HP's bundled compiler will be used.
PPM
PPM-Perl Package Manager, can be used to locate, install, and upgrade software packages. By default ppm connects to the Perl module repository maintained by ActiveState. A list of Perl packages in this repository is available at http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/
PPM runs in one of two modes: an interactive shell from which commands can be entered, and command-line mode where one specific action is performed per invocation of the program.
To use PPM, type /opt/perl/bin/ppm to bring up an interactive shell where you can type in your commands. For more details refer to the man pages.
Building Oracle DBD modules
Download the DBI and Oracle::DBD modules from http://www.cpan.org/.
- Build DBI
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Note: Perl v5.8.8 contains DBI module version 1.50.
- Build DBD-Oracle
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
If you encounter the following error during make:
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't shl_load() a library containing Thread Local Storage: <ORACLE_HOME>/JRE/lib/PA_RISC/native_threads/libjava.sl
then export LD_PRELOAD environment variable as follows: LD_PRELOAD=<ORACLE_HOME>/JRE/lib/PA_RISC/native_threads/libjava.sl
Use of LD_PRELOAD is similar to the use of libraries at the link line. Just make sure that LD_PRELOAD is used only for the application that needs it. Refer to dld.sl man page for more details. You may need to install the latest linker and dld patches. You can download the latest patches from itrc.hp.com
For Oracle 9i on HP-UX 11.23, LD_PRELOAD is not needed for building Oracle-DBD.
Installing XML-related modules
- The prerequisite for the XML related modules, libxml2.sl is not available on HP-UX. This has to be installed first.
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