{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# perlirix (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nperlirix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nThis document describes various features of Irix that will affect how Perl version 5\n(hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **DESCRIPTION** (7 subsections)\n- **AUTHOR**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n" } ], "structuredContent": { "command": "perlirix", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "perlirix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems", "synopsis": null, "tldr_summary": null, "tldr_examples": [], "tldr_source": null, "flags": [], "examples": [], "see_also": [], "section_outline": [ { "name": "NAME", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "DESCRIPTION", "lines": 3, "subsections": [ { "name": "Building 32-bit Perl in Irix", "lines": 9 }, { "name": "Building 64-bit Perl in Irix", "lines": 24 }, { "name": "About Compiler Versions of Irix", "lines": 6 }, { "name": "Linker Problems in Irix", "lines": 4 }, { "name": "Malloc in Irix", "lines": 3 }, { "name": "Building with threads in Irix", "lines": 17 }, { "name": "Irix 5.3", "lines": 35 } ] }, { "name": "AUTHOR", "lines": 7, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "perlirix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "This document describes various features of Irix that will affect how Perl version 5\n(hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.\n", "subsections": [ { "name": "Building 32-bit Perl in Irix", "content": "Use\n\nsh Configure -Dcc='cc -n32'\n\nto compile Perl 32-bit. Don't bother with -n32 unless you have 7.1 or later compilers (use\ncc -version to check).\n\n(Building 'cc -n32' is the default.)\n" }, { "name": "Building 64-bit Perl in Irix", "content": "Use\n\nsh Configure -Dcc='cc -64' -Duse64bitint\n\nThis requires require a 64-bit MIPS CPU (R8000, R10000, ...)\n\nYou can also use\n\nsh Configure -Dcc='cc -64' -Duse64bitall\n\nbut that makes no difference compared with the -Duse64bitint because of the \"cc -64\".\n\nYou can also do\n\nsh Configure -Dcc='cc -n32' -Duse64bitint\n\nto use long longs for the 64-bit integer type, in case you don't have a 64-bit CPU.\n\nIf you are using gcc, just\n\nsh Configure -Dcc=gcc -Duse64bitint\n\nshould be enough, the Configure should automatically probe for the correct 64-bit settings.\n" }, { "name": "About Compiler Versions of Irix", "content": "Some Irix cc versions, e.g. 7.3.1.1m (try cc -version) have been known to have issues\n(coredumps) when compiling perl.c. If you've used -OPT:fastio=ON and this happens, try\nremoving it. If that fails, or you didn't use that, then try adjusting other optimization\noptions (-LNO, -INLINE, -O3 to -O2, et cetera). The compiler bug has been reported to SGI.\n(Allen Smith )\n" }, { "name": "Linker Problems in Irix", "content": "If you get complaints about solocations then search in the file hints/irix6.sh for\n\"lddflags\" and do the suggested adjustments. (David Billinghurst\n)\n" }, { "name": "Malloc in Irix", "content": "Do not try to use Perl's malloc, this will lead into very mysterious errors (especially with\n-Duse64bitall).\n" }, { "name": "Building with threads in Irix", "content": "Run Configure with -Duseithreads which will configure Perl with the Perl 5.8.0 \"interpreter\nthreads\", see threads.\n\nFor Irix 6.2 with perl threads, you have to have the following patches installed:\n\n1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages\n1645 Irix 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates\n2000 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b support modules\n2254 Pthread library fixes\n2401 6.2 all platform kernel rollup\n\nIMPORTANT: Without patch 2401, a kernel bug in Irix 6.2 will cause your machine to panic and\ncrash when running threaded perl. Irix 6.3 and later are okay.\n\nThanks to Hannu Napari for the IRIX\npthreads patches information.\n" }, { "name": "Irix 5.3", "content": "While running Configure and when building, you are likely to get quite a few of these\nwarnings:\n\nld:\nThe shared object /usr/lib/libm.so did not resolve any symbols.\nYou may want to remove it from your link line.\n\nIgnore them: in IRIX 5.3 there is no way to quieten ld about this.\n\nDuring compilation you will see this warning from toke.c:\n\nuopt: Warning: Perlyylex: this procedure not optimized because it\nexceeds size threshold; to optimize this procedure, use -Olimit\noption with value >= 4252.\n\nIgnore the warning.\n\nIn IRIX 5.3 and with Perl 5.8.1 (Perl 5.8.0 didn't compile in IRIX 5.3) the following\nfailures are known.\n\nFailed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n../ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ??\n../lib/Math/Trig.t 255 65280 29 12 41.38% 24-29\n../lib/sort.t 0 138 119 72 60.50% 48-119\n56 tests and 474 subtests skipped.\nFailed 3/811 test scripts, 99.63% okay. 78/75813 subtests failed,\n99.90% okay.\n\nThey are suspected to be compiler errors (at least the shuffle.t failure is known from some\nIRIX 6 setups) and math library errors (the Trig.t failure), but since IRIX 5 is long since\nend-of-lifed, further fixes for the IRIX are unlikely. If you can get gcc for 5.3, you could\ntry that, too, since gcc in IRIX 6 is a known workaround for at least the shuffle.t and\nsort.t failures.\n" } ] }, "AUTHOR": { "content": "Jarkko Hietaniemi \n\nPlease report any errors, updates, or suggestions to .\n\n\n\nperl v5.34.0 2025-07-25 PERLIRIX(1)", "subsections": [] } } } }