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