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NAME
       perluts - Perl under UTS

SYNOPSIS
       This document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using
       "man perluts".

       The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you follow these instructions, should be
       easy, and result in a solidly working installation.

DESCRIPTION
       Perl 5.7.2 (Developmental) or Perl 5.8.x (forthcoming) for UTS

BUILDING PERL ON UTS
       NOTE: Some sites have redefined the way uname works, and if yours does this, special steps must be
       taken so that Configure can recognize your system as a UTS system.  To see if you are in this cate-gory, category,
       gory, issue the command "uname -a".  It should look something like:

         uts juno 4 4.4 9672 370

       At any rate, the first field should be "uts".  If this is not the case; supposing it is, say tel-coUTS, telcoUTS,
       coUTS, create a script, uts/uname (i.e. uname, in the subdirectory "uts" of the main Perl source
       dir):
          # uname
          /usr/bin/uname "$@" | sed -e 's/^telcoUTS/uts/'

       and when you execute Configure, do it as below, except for adding PATH=uts:$PATH as a prefix.  I.e.
       do:

          PATH=uts:$PATH ./Configure ...

       There is no need to do an interactive configure, just type

         ./Configure -de [-Dusedevel] [-Doptimize=-g ] 2>&1 | tee Conf.out

       "-Dusedevel" may be required to configure Perl 5.7.2 non-interactively.  Use -Doptimize=-g if you
       want to run Perl under sdb or gdb, OR if you want to be able to use the -D command line flags to
       perl, which are occasionally useful in debugging perl scripts.

       In this and the following steps, the "2>&1 | tee XXX.out" records all output from the process, which
       will be useful if anything unexpected goes wrong.

       Then do the compilation with

         make 2>&1 | tee make.out

       Finally, test using

         make test 2>&1 | tee make-test.out

       In the output, the only failures you should see should look like:

          lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.........Use of uninitialized value ...
          FAILED at test 57
          lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintc..........ok
          lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.........FAILED at test 204
          lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf...........Use of uninitialized value ...
          Illegal division by zero at ../lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm line 314.
          FAILED at test 71
          lib/Math/Complex...................exp: OVERFLOW
          FAILED at test 250
          lib/Math/Trig......................exp: OVERFLOW
          ok
          lib/Memoize/t/array................ok
               ...
          lib/Net/protoent...................ok
          lib/Net/servent....................FAILED at test 0

       This means that everything passes except for some problems in the packages "Math::BigInt",
       "Math::Complex", and "Math::Trig".  The lib/Net/servent failure seems to be a bug in the test pro-gram. program.
       gram.  To confirm this, from the main Perl source dir, do:

          LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` ./perl -Ilib lib/Net/servent.t

       and it should output

          1..3
          ok 1
          ok 2
          ok 3

Installing the built perl on UTS
       Run the command "make install"

AUTHOR
          Hal Morris
          UTS Global LLC
          email: hom00@utsglobal.com



perl v5.8.9                                      2007-11-17                                       PERLUTS(1)