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1 | # vim: syntax=pod |
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3 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. |
| 4 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially | |
| 5 | designed to be readable as is. | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | =head1 NAME | |
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| de2902a6 | 9 | perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd |
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10 | |
| 11 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
| 7b73750b | 12 | |
| c2da85ba | 13 | If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian |
| 71c89d21 | 14 | GNU/Hurd distribution ( see L<https://www.debian.org/> ), even if an |
| b432a672 | 15 | official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2" |
| c2da85ba | 16 | binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems. |
| 7b73750b | 17 | |
| a83b6f46 | 18 | =head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd |
| 7b73750b | 19 | |
| 0a74eaba | 20 | The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The |
| b432a672 | 21 | "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail. |
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22 | Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the |
| 23 | test suite output. | |
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24 | |
| 25 | The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have | |
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26 | to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for "/servers/socket/2", giving |
| 27 | it the right arguments. Try "/hurd/pfinet --help" for more | |
| c2da85ba | 28 | information. |
| 7b73750b | 29 | |
| 0a74eaba | 30 | Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system: |
| 7b73750b | 31 | |
| a83b6f46 | 32 | Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed |
| e46aa1dd | 33 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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34 | lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12 |
| 35 | pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215 | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped. | |
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38 | Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, |
| 39 | 99.98% okay. | |
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40 | |
| 41 | There are quite a few systems out there that do worse! | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of | |
| 0a74eaba | 44 | bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may |
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45 | encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: "op/stat", "lib/io_pipe", |
| 46 | "lib/io_sock", "lib/io_udp" and "lib/time". | |
| 7b73750b | 47 | |
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48 | In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this |
| 49 | document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting | |
| 50 | the failure as a bug. | |
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51 | |
| 52 | =head1 AUTHOR | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200 | |
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