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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. |
2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially | |
3 | designed to be readable as is. | |
4 | ||
5 | =head1 NAME | |
6 | ||
7 | README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd | |
8 | ||
9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
10 | ||
11 | If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian | |
12 | GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ), even if an | |
13 | official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2" | |
14 | binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems. | |
15 | ||
16 | =head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd | |
17 | ||
18 | The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The | |
19 | "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail. | |
20 | Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the | |
21 | test suite output. | |
22 | ||
23 | The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have | |
24 | to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for "/servers/socket/2", giving | |
25 | it the right arguments. Try "/hurd/pfinet --help" for more | |
26 | information. | |
27 | ||
28 | Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system: | |
29 | ||
30 | Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed | |
31 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
32 | lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12 | |
33 | pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215 | |
34 | ||
35 | 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped. | |
36 | Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 99.98% okay. | |
37 | ||
38 | There are quite a few systems out there that do worse! | |
39 | ||
40 | However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of | |
41 | bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may | |
42 | encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: "op/stat", "lib/io_pipe", | |
43 | "lib/io_sock", "lib/io_udp" and "lib/time". | |
44 | ||
45 | In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this | |
46 | document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting | |
47 | the failure as a bug. | |
48 | ||
49 | =head1 AUTHOR | |
50 | ||
51 | Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> | |
52 | ||
53 | Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200 | |
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