NAMEREADME.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
SYNOPSISThis document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on BS2000 in the POSIX subsystem.
DESCRIPTIONThis is a ported perl for the POSIX subsystem in BS2000 VERSION OSD V3.1A or later. It may work on other versions, but we started porting and testing it with 3.1A and are currently using Version V4.0A. You may need the following GNU programs in order to install perl:
gzipWe used version 1.2.4, which could be installed out of the box with one failure during 'make check'.
bisonThe yacc coming with BS2000 POSIX didn't work for us. So we had to use bison. We had to make a few changes to perl in order to use the pure (reentrant) parser of bison. We used version 1.25, but we had to add a few changes due to EBCDIC. See below for more details concerning yacc.
UnpackingTo extract an ASCII tar archive on BS2000 POSIX you need an ASCII filesystem (we used the mountpoint /usr/local/ascii for this). Now you extract the archive in the ASCII filesystem without I/O-conversion: cd /usr/local/ascii export IO_CONVERSION=NO gunzip < /usr/local/src/perl.tar.gz | pax -r You may ignore the error message for the first element of the archive (this doesn't look like a tar archive / skipping to next file...), it's only the directory which will be created automatically anyway. After extracting the archive you copy the whole directory tree to your EBCDIC filesystem. This time you use I/O-conversion: cd /usr/local/src IO_CONVERSION=YES cp -r /usr/local/ascii/perl5.005_02 ./
CompilingThere is a ``hints'' file for BS2000 called hints.posix-bc (because posix-bc is the OS name given by `uname`) that specifies the correct values for most things. The major problem is (of course) the EBCDIC character set. We have german EBCDIC version. Because of our problems with the native yacc we used GNU bison to generate a pure (=reentrant) parser for perly.y. So our yacc is really the following script: -----8<-----/usr/local/bin/yacc-----8<----- #! /usr/bin/sh # Bison as a reentrant yacc: # save parameters: params=``'' while [[ $# -gt 1 ]]; do params=``$params $1'' shift done # add flag %pure_parser: tmpfile=/tmp/bison.$$.y echo %pure_parser > $tmpfile cat $1 >> $tmpfile # call bison: echo ``/usr/local/bin/bison --yacc $params $1\t\t\t(Pure Parser)'' /usr/local/bin/bison --yacc $params $tmpfile # cleanup: rm -f $tmpfile -----8<----------8<----- We still use the normal yacc for a2p.y though!!! We made a softlink called byacc to distinguish between the two versions: ln -s /usr/bin/yacc /usr/local/bin/byacc We build perl using GNU make. We tried the native make once and it worked too.
TestingWe still got a few errors during op/numconvert.......FAILED tests 1409-1440 op/regexp...........FAILED tests 483, 496 op/regexp_noamp.....FAILED tests 483, 496 pragma/overload.....FAILED tests 152-153, 170-171 pragma/warnings.....FAILED tests 14, 82, 129, 155, 192, 205, 207 lib/bigfloat........FAILED tests 351-352, 355 lib/bigfltpm........FAILED tests 354-355, 358 lib/complex.........FAILED tests 267, 487 lib/dumper..........FAILED tests 43, 45 Failed 11/231 test scripts, 95.24% okay. 57/10595 subtests failed, 99.46% okay.
InstallWe have no nroff on BS2000 POSIX (yet), so we ignored any errors while installing the documentation.
Using Perl in the Posix-ShellBS2000 POSIX doesn't support the shebang notation
( : # use perl eval 'exec /usr/local/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+``$@''}' if $running_under_some_shell;
Using Perl in ``native'' BS2000We don't have much experience with this yet, but try the following: Copy your Perl executable to a BS2000 LLM using bs2cp:
Now you can start it with the following (SDF) command:
First you get the BS2000 commandline prompt ('*'). Here you may enter
your parameters, e.g.
Floating point anomaliesThere appears to be a bug in the floating point implementation on BS2000 POSIX
systems such that calling my $x = 100000.0; my $y = int($x * 1e-5) * 1e5; # '0' my $z = int($x / 1e+5) * 1e5; # '100000' print "\$y is $y and \$z is $z\n"; # $y is 0 and $z is 100000 Although one would expect the quantities $y and $z to be the same and equal to 100000 they will differ and instead will be 0 and 100000 respectively.
AUTHORSThomas Dorner
SEE ALSOINSTALL, the perlport manpage.
Mailing listThe Perl Institute (http://www.perl.org/) maintains a perl-mvs mailing list of interest to all folks building and/or using perl on EBCDIC platforms. To subscribe, send a message of: subscribe perl-mvs
HISTORYThis document was originally written by Thomas Dorner for the 5.005 release of Perl. This document was podified for the 5.6 release of perl 11 July 2000.
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