perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
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Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLHURD(1)
NAME
perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
DESCRIPTION
If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian
GNU/Hurd distribution ( see <https://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(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-532 |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.perl.org/.
perl v5.32.0 2020-06-14 PERLHURD(1)