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