1If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. 2It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially 3designed to be readable as is. 4 5=head1 NAME 6 7perlhaiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku 8 9=head1 DESCRIPTION 10 11This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists 12known problems. 13 14=head1 BUILD AND INSTALL 15 16The build procedure is completely standard: 17 18 ./Configure -de 19 make 20 make install 21 22Make perl executable and create a symlink for libperl: 23 24 chmod a+x /boot/common/bin/perl 25 cd /boot/common/lib; ln -s perl5/5.36.1/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so . 26 27Replace C<5.36.1> with your respective version of Perl. 28 29=head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS 30 31The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311: 32 33=over 4 34 35=item * 36 37Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM. 38 39=item * 40 41The F<cpan/Socket/t/socketpair.t> test fails. More precisely: the subtests 42using datagram sockets fail. Unix datagram sockets aren't implemented in 43Haiku yet. 44 45=item * 46 47A subtest of the F<cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t> test fails. This is due to Haiku 48not implementing F</dev/log> support yet. 49 50=item * 51 52The tests F<dist/Net-Ping/t/450_service.t> and F<dist/Net-Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t> 53fail. This is due to bugs in Haiku's network stack implementation. 54 55=back 56 57=head1 CONTACT 58 59For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers: 60L<http://ports.haiku-files.org/> 61 62The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>. 63 64Last update: 2008-10-29 65