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