-$Id: README.beos,v 1.2 1998/05/02 01:55:04 dogcow Exp dogcow $
+If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
+It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
+designed to be readable as is.
-Notes on building perl under BeOS:
+=head1 NAME
-GENERAL ISSUES
---------------
-perl will almost compile straight out of the box with ./Configure -d, but
-there are a few gotchas:
+README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
-Currently, you have to edit config.sh and remove SDBM_File from the
-dynamic_ext= and extensions= lines. SDBM_File does not build properly
-at this time. You need to run ./Configure -S after editing config.sh.
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
-In addition, with mwcc, after doing `make depend`, you need to edit
-makefile and x2p/makefile and remove the lines that mention 'Bletch:'.
-This is not necessary if you're using gnu cpp.
+Notes for building Perl under BeOS.
-in short:
-./Configure -d
-remove SDBM_File from config.sh
-./Configure -S
-make depend
-remove Bletch: from makefile and x2p/makefile
-make
+=head2 General Issues with Perl on BeOS
-Other than that, perl should build without problems. There are some
-technical comments in hints/beos.sh.
+To compile perl under BeOS R4 x86:
-OS RELEASE-SPECIFIC NOTES
--------------------------
+ ./Configure -d
-PR1/PPC:
-See R3/X86. Same bug, different form.
+and hit ^C when it asks you if you want to make changes to config.sh;
+edit config.sh and do the following:
+change d_socket='define' to ='undef';
+remove SDBM, Errno, and Socket from dynamic_ext= and nonxs_ext=;
+add '#define bool short' to x2p/a2p.h;
-PR2/PPC:
-Signals are somewhat unreliable, but they can work. Use caution.
-The POSIX module is still somewhat buggy.
+ ../Configure -S; make; make install
-R3/X86:
-Under R3 x86, there are some serious problems with the math routines
-such that numbers are incorrectly printed. This causes problems with
-modules that encode their version numbers - in particular, IO.pm will
-probably not work properly. This should be fixed under R3.1.
+ cd ~/config/lib; ln -s 5.00502/BeOS-BePC/CORE/libperl.so .
-The problem has manifested itself if you see something similar to the
-following during the compile:
+(substitute 5.00502 with the appropriate filename)
-cc -c -I/usr/local/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.1504\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.1499999999\" -fpic -I../.. IO.c
-(lots of 9's are the indication of the problem.)
+=head2 BeOS Release-specific Notes
-In the meantime, you can use the following workaround:
+=over 4
-make perl
-cd ext/IO
-cc -c -I/usr/local/include -O -DVERSION=\"1.1504\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.15\" -fpic -I../.. IO.c
-cd ..
-make
+=item R4 x86
-(Substitute the correct numbers if IO has been updated.)
+Dynamic loading finally works! Yay! This means you can compile your
+own modules into perl. However, Sockets and Errno still don't work.
+(Hopefully, sockets will at least work by R5, if not sooner.)
-R3/PPC-
-There's math problems, but of a different kind. In particular,
-perl -e 'print (240000 - (3e4<<3))' gives a non-zero answer.
-I'm looking into this. There is no workaround as yet. Hopefully,
-this will be fixed in R3.1.
+=item R4 PPC
+
+I have not tested this. I rather severely doubt that dynamic loading
+will work. (My BeBox is in pieces right now, following a nasty disk
+crash.) You may have to disable dynamic loading to get the thing to
+compile at all. (use `./Configure` without -d, and say 'no' to 'Build
+a shared libperl.so'.)
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Contact Information
-CONTACT INFORMATION
--------------------
If you have comments, problem reports, or even patches or bugfixes (gasp!)
please email me.
-1 May 1998
+28 Jan 1999
Tom Spindler
-dogcow@merit.edu
+dogcow@isi.net
+
+=head2 Update 2002-05-30
+
+The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03:
+
+ t/op/lfs............................FAILED at test 17
+ t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24
+ ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs..................FAILED at test 17
+ ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3
+ ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13
+ ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1
+
+The reasons for the failures are as follows:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+The t/op/lfs and ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs failures indicate that the
+LFS (large file support, files larger than 2 gigabytes) doesn't
+work from Perl (BeFS itself is well capable of supporting large
+files). What fails is that trying to position the file pointer
+past 2 gigabytes doesn't work right, the position gets truncated
+to its lower 32 bits.
+
+=item *
+
+The op/magic failures look like something funny going on with $0 and
+$^X that I can't now figure out: none of the generated pathnames are
+wrong as such, they just seem to accumulate "./" prefixes and infixes
+in ways that define logic.
+
+=item *
+
+The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions:
+they do not always return the correct user db entries.
+
+=item *
+
+The sigaction #13 means that signal mask doesn't get properly restored
+if sigaction returns early.
+
+=item *
+
+The waitpid failure means that after there are no more child
+processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set
+errno to ECHILD). In BeOS, it doesn't seem to.
+
+=back
+
+Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the
+Developer Tools, that is the whole extent of my BeOS expertise,
+so please don't ask me for further help in BeOS Perl problems.
+jhi@iki.fi
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