perlhurd
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Name
perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
Synopsis
Please see following description for synopsis
Description
Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLHURD(1)
NAME
README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
DESCRIPTION
If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the
Debian GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ),
even if an official, stable release has not yet been made.
The old "gnu-0.2" binary distribution will most certainly
have additional problems.
Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the
Hurd. The "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will
almost certainly fail. Both failures are not really
specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the test suite output.
The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured.
You have to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for
"/servers/socket/2", giving it the right arguments. Try
"/hurd/pfinet --help" for more information.
Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system:
Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12
pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215
8 tests and 24 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 99.98% okay.
There are quite a few systems out there that do worse!
However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in
which a lot of bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite
have been fixed, you may encounter more failures. Likely
candidates are: "op/stat", "lib/io_pipe", "lib/io_sock",
"lib/io_udp" and "lib/time".
In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned
in this document, please consider upgrading to the latest
Hurd before reporting the failure as a bug.
AUTHOR
Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
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Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLHURD(1)
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-512 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.
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