=head1 DESCRIPTION
+There is a binary version of perl available from the FreeMiNT project
+http://freemint.de/ You may wish to use this instead of trying to
+compile yourself.
+
+B<The following advice is from perl 5.004_02 and is probably rather
+out of date.>
+
If you want to build perl yourself on MiNT (or maybe on an Atari without
MiNT) you may want to accept some advice from somebody who already did it...
This version (5.00402) of perl has passed most of the tests on my system:
-Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-io/pipe.t 10 2 20.00% 7, 9
-io/tell.t 13 1 7.69% 12
-lib/complex.t 762 13 1.71% 84-85, 248-251, 257, 272-273,
- 371, 380, 419-420
-lib/io_pipe.t 10 1 10.00% 9
-lib/io_tell.t 13 1 7.69% 12
-op/magic.t 30 2 6.67% 29-30
-Failed 6/152 test scripts, 96.05% okay. 20/4359 subtests failed, 99.54% okay.
+ Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ io/pipe.t 10 2 20.00% 7, 9
+ io/tell.t 13 1 7.69% 12
+ lib/complex.t 762 13 1.71% 84-85, 248-251, 257, 272-273,
+ 371, 380, 419-420
+ lib/io_pipe.t 10 1 10.00% 9
+ lib/io_tell.t 13 1 7.69% 12
+ op/magic.t 30 2 6.67% 29-30
+ Failed 6/152 test scripts, 96.05% okay. 20/4359 subtests failed, 99.54% okay.
Pipes always cause problems with MiNT, it's actually a surprise that
most of the tests did work. I've got no idea why the "tell" test failed,
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-Another possible problem may arise from the implementation of the "pwd"
+Another possible problem may arise from the implementation of the "pwd"
command. It happened to add a carriage return and newline to its output
no matter what the setting of $UNIXMODE is. This is quite annoying since many
library modules for perl take the output of pwd, chop off the
module somewhere before you succeed.
Anything missing? Yep, I've almost forgotten...
-No file in this distribution without a fine saying. Take this one:
+No file in this distribution without a fine saying. Take this one:
"From a thief you should learn: (1) to work at night;
(2) if one cannot gain what one wants in one night to
Guido Flohr
- mailto:gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de
- http://stud.uni-sb.de/~gufl0000
-
+ mailto:guido@FreeMiNT.de