1# vim: syntax=pod 2 3If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. 4It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially 5designed to be readable as is. 6 7=head1 NAME 8 9perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd 10 11=head1 DESCRIPTION 12 13If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian 14GNU/Hurd distribution ( see L<https://www.debian.org/> ), even if an 15official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2" 16binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems. 17 18=head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd 19 20The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The 21"lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail. 22Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the 23test suite output. 24 25The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have 26to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for "/servers/socket/2", giving 27it the right arguments. Try "/hurd/pfinet --help" for more 28information. 29 30Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system: 31 32 Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed 33 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 38 Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 39 99.98% okay. 40 41There are quite a few systems out there that do worse! 42 43However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of 44bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may 45encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: "op/stat", "lib/io_pipe", 46"lib/io_sock", "lib/io_udp" and "lib/time". 47 48In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this 49document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting 50the failure as a bug. 51 52=head1 AUTHOR 53 54Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> 55 56Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200 57 58