General Information edit
HP-UX [
1] is one of the
Unix Systems in HP's portfolio [
2]. It is provided for the two architectures HP9000 Servers (parisc) [
3] and Integrity Servers (Itanium, ia64) [
4]. An emulator exists on the Itanium architecture to ensure runtime compatibility (of some sort) for executables build for the parisc architecture (see ARIES at [
5]).
Tcl/
Tk and quite a number of its
extensions can be obtained from the
Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX [
6], e.g. here [
7] or one of its mirrors.
ActiveState does also ship a
Batteries Included distribution for
HP-UX.
Hints for Development edit
MAKR (2008/03/04): I use HP's aCC compiler [
8] with the following CFLAGS to build
Tcl/
Tk and a couple of
extensions (including my own):
| -Ae | ANSI-C compatibility |
| +DAportable | Result runs on PA1.1 and PA2.0 (32bit; parisc builds only) |
| +DD64 | Result is for 64bit architecture |
| -O | Switch on optimization |
| (+Osize) | Optimize for size instead of performance (I need that, would not recommend it for general use, though) |
| -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=98 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 | POSIX compatibility |
Please note that a lot of the standard commands behave different from what one might expect. If you want or need
POSIX behavior, you have to setup one of the following environment variables:
| export UNIX95=1 | up to and including HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) |
| export UNIX_STD=1995 | from HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) onwards, same effect as above |
| export UNIX_STD=2003 | from HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) onwards, compliance to more recent POSIX specs |
A link to the online HP-UX man pages: [
9]
