Building perl and libs on HP-UX

runrig on 2008-03-14T21:53:01

I must keep this somewhere in one place semi-permanent...boring stuff plus hoops to jump through to get XML(LibXML and LibXSLT), and DBD::Oracle and DBD::Sybase working on HP-UX (I have no explanation for having to run 'perl Makefile.PL' over and over). I don't remember if I needed to use 'chatr' to change some of the shared libraries to get them to load:

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Notes on Building perl 5.10.0 and various
libraries on HP-UX (11.11)

All of the following was installed under
/users/foo
Adjust all prefix parameters accordingly
to install in another directory (or remove
to install in default location).
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First perl itself:

> which cc
must be /opt/softbench/bin/cc compiler
(default HP /usr/bin/cc compiler will not work)
(gcc compiler can work, but everything here was done
with softbench compiler).

# Add prefix to install in non-standard path
sh Configure -Dprefix=/users/foo

keep default of building non-threaded perl, but
add '-lcl -lpthread' to beginning of libraries to include.
(So that DBD::Oracle will build dynamically later).

make
make test
make install

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XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT:
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First install shared libraries:

install binaries of zlib(libz), iconv, and gettext
libraries, unless you really feel like building them
(install in local directory if necessary..e.g./users/foo/lib
and include files in /users/foo/include).

Build source for libxml library:
Set env variables:
export CC=cc
export LDFLAGS="-L/users/foo/lib -I/users/foo/include"

./configure --prefix=/users/foo --without-threads --without-thread-alloc --with-iconv=/users/foo --with-zlib=/users/foo

make
make install

# Fix permission on config info file:
chmod +x /users/foo/bin/xml2-config

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Build source for libxslt library:
Set env variables:
export CC=cc
export LDFLAGS="-L/users/foo/lib -I/users/foo/include"

./configure --prefix=/users/foo
make
make install

# Fix permission on config info file:
chmod +x /users/foo/bin/xslt-config

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Build source for XML::LibXML::Common:
perl Makefile.PL
  (doesn't always work first time..repeat until Makefile is created)

make
make test
make install
  
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Build source for XML::NamespaceSupport:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
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Build source for XML::SAX:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
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Build source for XML::LibXML:

perl Makefile.PL (repeat until Makefile is created)
make
make test
make install
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Build source for XML::LibXSLT:

Change the following lines (this might be fixed in a future
version):
#xsystem("$Config{make} $file test 'OTHERLDFLAGS=$opt'");
xsystem("$Config{make} $file test");

#$result = try_link(<<"SRC", $libs);
$result = try_link(<<"SRC", undef);

perl Makefile.PL LIBS=-L/users/foo/lib INC="-I/users/foo/include -I/users/foo/include/libxml2"
make
make test
  (a couple of tests, e.g. exslt tests, will fail, install exslt library
  if you need exslt)
make install
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Build source for DBI

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test (many tests are skipped)
make install
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Build source for DBD::Oracle (1.20)

perl Makefile.PL

edit Makefile:
# Look for
$(LD) -Wl,+b"$(LD_RUN_PATH)"  $(LDDLFLAGS) $(LDFROM) $(OTHERLDFLAGS) -o $@ $(MYEXTLIB)  \
# Remove "-Wl,"
$(LD) +b"$(LD_RUN_PATH)"  $(LDDLFLAGS) $(LDFROM) $(OTHERLDFLAGS) -o $@ $(MYEXTLIB)  \

make
make test
  (many 'connects' fail unless you set env vars for a test db)
  (many charset tests skipped on old versions of Oracle)
make install
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Build source for DBD::Sybase (1.08)

Edit Sybase.pm:
# Look for:
sub dl_load_flags { if($^O eq 'aix') { 0x00 } else { 0x01 }}
# Change to:
sub dl_load_flags { if($^O eq 'aix') { 0x00 } else { 0x00 }}

update: patch to display line numbers on RaiseError:
*** ../DBD-Sybase-1.08/dbdimp.c Thu Apr 19 11:31:19 2007
--- dbdimp.c    Thu Jun 19 14:09:45 2008
***************
*** 545,550 ****
--- 545,551 ----
        else
            retcode = CS_SUCCEED;

+       sv_catpv(DBIc_ERRSTR(imp_dbh), " ");
        return retcode;
      } else {
        if(srvmsg->msgnumber) {


perl Makefile.PL (prompts for test server/db and user/passwd)
make
make test
make install