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