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.
7 README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS
11 This file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists
14 =head1 BUILD AND INSTALL
18 I have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server.
19 I can't say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had been released
20 for BeOS BONE, I suspect, there is a good chance, that it still compiles on
21 a BONE system. The only change I've made, that affects BONE systems is the
22 recognition of whether it is a BONE system or not in C<hints/beos.sh>. Now
23 network socket support should remain enabled on BONE systems. This might
24 as well break the build, though.
26 As more recent versions of autoconf require flock() support, I wrote a flock()
27 emulation (flock_server) and released it on BeBits:
29 http://www.bebits.com/app/4030
31 If you want to build a Perl with flock() support, you have to install this
38 CFLAGS=-I/path/to/flock/server/headers ./configure.gnu \
39 --prefix=/boot/home/config
41 Replace C</path/to/flock/server/headers> with the path to the directory
42 containing the C<flock.h> header.
44 Without flock() support:
46 ./configure.gnu --prefix=/boot/home/config
52 make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet -lflock"
54 Without flock() support:
56 make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet"
58 C<-lnet> is needed on net server systems only and if the compiler doesn't
59 add it automatically (Be's R5 gcc does, Oliver Tappe's gcc 2.95.3 does not).
63 Install all perl files:
67 Create a symlink for libperl:
69 cd ~/config/lib; ln -s perl5/5.8.6/BePC-beos/CORE/libperl.so .
71 Replace C<5.8.6> with your respective version of Perl.
79 Network socket support is disabled for BeOS R5 net server. I didn't dare yet
80 to try enabling it and see what problems occur.
84 The LFS (large file support) tests (C<t/op/lfs> and C<xt/Fcntl/t/syslfs>) are
85 disabled as seeking beyond 2 GB is broken according to jhi@iki.fi who was the
86 last one checking the BeOS port and updating this file before me. Haven't
91 The C<t/io/fflush> test fails at #6. As far as I can tell, this is caused by
92 a bug in the BeOS pipes implementation that occurs when starting other child
93 processes. In the particular test case a C<system("perl -e 0")> flushes the
94 stdout pipe of another child process.
98 The C<ext/POSIX/t/waitpid> test fails at #1. After all child processes are
99 gone BeOS' waitpid(-1,...) returns 0 instead of -1 (as it should). No idea
106 For BeOS specifics problems feel free to mail to:
107 Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@cs.tu-berlin.de>
109 Last update: 2004-12-16