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 7perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd 8 9=head1 DESCRIPTION 10 11If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian 12GNU/Hurd distribution ( see L<http://www.debian.org/> ), even if an 13official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2" 14binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems. 15 16=head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd 17 18The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The 19"lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail. 20Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the 21test suite output. 22 23The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have 24to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for "/servers/socket/2", giving 25it the right arguments. Try "/hurd/pfinet --help" for more 26information. 27 28Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system: 29 30 Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed 31 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12 33 pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215 34 35 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped. 36 Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 37 99.98% okay. 38 39There are quite a few systems out there that do worse! 40 41However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of 42bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may 43encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: "op/stat", "lib/io_pipe", 44"lib/io_sock", "lib/io_udp" and "lib/time". 45 46In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this 47document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting 48the failure as a bug. 49 50=head1 AUTHOR 51 52Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> 53 54Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200 55 56