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7b73750b | 1 | Notes on Perl on the Hurd |
0a74eaba | 2 | Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200 |
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3 | Written by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> |
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5 | If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian |
6 | GNU/Hurd distribution (see http://www.debian.org), even if an | |
7 | official, stable release has not yet been made. The old `gnu-0.2' | |
8 | binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems. | |
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c2da85ba | 10 | * Known Problems |
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12 | The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The |
13 | `lib/anydbm' and `pragma/warnings' tests will almost certainly fail. | |
14 | Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the | |
15 | test suite output. | |
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17 | The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have | |
18 | to make `/hurd/pfinet' the translator for `/servers/socket/2', giving | |
19 | it the right arguments. Try `/hurd/pfinet --help' for more | |
c2da85ba | 20 | information. |
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0a74eaba | 22 | Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system: |
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24 | Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed | |
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c2da85ba | 26 | lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12 |
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27 | pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215 |
28 | 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped. | |
29 | Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 99.98% okay. | |
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31 | There are quite a few systems out there that do worse! | |
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33 | However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of | |
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34 | bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may |
35 | encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: `op/stat', `lib/io_pipe', | |
36 | `lib/io_sock', `lib/io_udp' and `lib/time'. | |
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38 | In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this |
39 | document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting | |
40 | the failure as a bug. |