PERLHAIKU(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLHAIKU(1)
NAME
perlhaiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku
DESCRIPTION
This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists
known problems.
BUILD AND INSTALL
The build procedure is completely standard:
./Configure -de
make
make install
Make perl executable and create a symlink for libperl:
chmod a+x /boot/common/bin/perl
cd /boot/common/lib; ln -s perl5/5.40.1/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .
Replace 5.40.1 with your respective version of Perl.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311:
• Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM.
• The cpan/Socket/t/socketpair.t test fails. More precisely: the
subtests using datagram sockets fail. Unix datagram sockets aren't
implemented in Haiku yet.
• A subtest of the cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t test fails. This is due
to Haiku not implementing /dev/log support yet.
• The tests dist/Net-Ping/t/450_service.t and
dist/Net-Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t fail. This is due to bugs in Haiku's
network stack implementation.
CONTACT
For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers:
<https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports>
The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>.
Last update: 2008-10-29
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