Notes on Perl on the Hurd Last Updated: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:11:14 +0100 Written by: Mark Kettenis * Known Problems There are several problems with Perl on the Hurd. Most of them are related to bugs in the OS, some might be actual bugs in Perl. The database code has problems that make Perl crash. When running the test-suite one of the tests will crash. Note that on the Hurd when a program crashes, the crash server suspends the program. Continuing the program will cause it to exit. 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. It seems that it is currently not possible to do this right when you do not have a supported network device. Therefore all tests that use INET sockets fail on my system, suggesting that the `localhost' address may not be defined. Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_03 on my system: Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lib/anydbm.t 12 3 25.00% 1, 4, 9 lib/db-btree.t 0 11 ?? ?? % ?? lib/db-hash.t 255 65280 62 42 67.74% 15, 22-62 lib/db-recno.t 2 512 78 61 78.21% 17, 19-78 lib/io_pipe.t 10 ?? % ?? lib/io_sock.t 46 11776 5 5 100.00% 1-5 lib/io_udp.t 46 11776 3 3 100.00% 1-3 lib/socket.t 6 6 100.00% 1-6 op/stat.t 58 1 1.72% 4 op/time.t 5 1 20.00% 2 5 tests skipped, plus 14 subtests skipped. Failed 10/188 test scripts, 94.68% okay. 121/6467 subtests failed, 98.13% okay.