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## NAME
       perlvos - Perl for Stratus OpenVOS

## SYNOPSIS
       This file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus OpenVOS operating system.  Perl is
       a scripting or macro language that is popular on many systems.  See perlbook for a number of
       good books on Perl.

       These are instructions for building Perl from source.  This version of Perl requires the
       dynamic linking support that is found in OpenVOS Release 17.1 and thus is not supported on
       OpenVOS Release 17.0 or earlier releases.

       If you are running VOS Release 14.4.1 or later, you can obtain a pre-compiled, supported copy
       of perl by purchasing the GNU Tools product from Stratus Technologies.

## BUILDING PERL FOR OPENVOS
       To build perl from its source code on the Stratus V Series platform you must have OpenVOS
       Release 17.1.0 or later, GNU Tools Release 3.5 or later, and the C/POSIX Runtime Libraries.

       Follow the normal instructions for building perl; e.g, enter bash, run the Configure script,
       then use "gmake" to build perl.

## INSTALLING PERL IN OPENVOS
       1.  After you have built perl using the Configure script, ensure that you have modify and
           default write permission to ">system>ported" and all subdirectories.  Then type

                gmake install

       2.  While there are currently no architecture-specific extensions or modules distributed with
           perl, the following directories can be used to hold such files (replace the string
           VERSION by the appropriate version number):

                >system>ported>lib>perl5>VERSION>i786

       3.  Site-specific perl extensions and modules can be installed in one of two places.  Put
           architecture-independent files into:

                >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION

           Put site-specific architecture-dependent files into one of the following directories:

                >system>ported>lib>perl5>site_perl>VERSION>i786

       4.  You can examine the @INC variable from within a perl program to see the order in which
           Perl searches these directories.

## USING PERL IN OPENVOS
### Restrictions of Perl on OpenVOS
       This port of Perl version 5 prefers Unix-style, slash-separated pathnames over OpenVOS-style
       greater-than-separated pathnames.  OpenVOS-style pathnames should work in most contexts, but
       if you have trouble, replace all greater-than characters by slash characters.  Because the
       slash character is used as a pathname delimiter, Perl cannot process OpenVOS pathnames
       containing a slash character in a directory or file name; these must be renamed.

       This port of Perl also uses Unix-epoch date values internally.  As long as you are dealing
       with ASCII character string representations of dates, this should not be an issue.  The
       supported epoch is January 1, 1980 to January 17, 2038.

       See the file pod/perlport.pod for more information about the OpenVOS port of Perl.

## TEST STATUS
       A number of the perl self-tests fails for various reasons; generally these are minor and due
       to subtle differences between common POSIX-based environments and the OpenVOS POSIX
       environment.  Ensure that you conduct sufficient testing of your code to guarantee that it
       works properly in the OpenVOS environment.

## SUPPORT STATUS
       I'm offering this port "as is".  You can ask me questions, but I can't guarantee I'll be able
       to answer them.  There are some excellent books available on the Perl language; consult a
       book seller.

       If you want a supported version of perl for OpenVOS, purchase the OpenVOS GNU Tools product
       from Stratus Technologies, along with a support contract (or from anyone else who will sell
       you support).

## AUTHOR
       Paul Green (<Paul.Green@stratus.com>)

## LAST UPDATE
       February 28, 2013



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