[bug-notifications] [perl 0004484]: Build a sparcv9 64-bit threaded perl

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4484 
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Reported By:                hudesd
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    perl
Issue ID:                   4484
Category:                   packaging
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2010-07-01 17:31 CEST
Last Modified:              2010-07-01 17:42 CEST
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Summary:                    Build a sparcv9 64-bit threaded perl
Description: 
Perl 5.10.1 has improved support for threads. SPARC is 64-bit for a long
time. 
Please switch to using Sun Studio 12 rather than Sun Studio 11 and drop
any pretense of support for Solaris 8 which is more a year past end of
support life.

Please do NOT use the -fast option as this introduces math inaccuracies
and, per the compiler man page, can produce problems with running on a
target other than the intended. Rather, specify individual options to the
compiler. Among other things it's not a good idea to use -fsimple with a
value >0 as this affects IEEE 754 compliance (thereby screwing up Math::
modules).

Please build Solaris 10-native 5.10.1 using switches -mt -xtarget=ultra3i
-xarch=sparcvis2 -m64 -xipo -x04 


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 (0008079) bonivart (manager) - 2010-07-01 17:42
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4484#c8079 
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We don't support Solaris 8 any more. However, the Perl 5.10.1 build is from
end of last year when we still did. When we update it, it will be built on
Solaris 9 with Studio 12 like all of our current packages. We can build a
separate Solaris 10 package, no problem.

How about 5.12.1? Heard about any problems with that?

Is there use for a 64-bit Perl? We put a lot of time into re-compiling
around 100 modules from 5.8.8 to 5.10.1, we need a better way to deal with
that if we're going to have more than one (1) update a year. :-)