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6 README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
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9 If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian
10 GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ), even if an
11 official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2"
12 binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems.
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14 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
15 The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The
16 "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail.
17 Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the
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20 The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have
21 to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for "/servers/socket/2", giving
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25 Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system:
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29 lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12
30 pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215
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33 Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 99.98% okay.
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35 There are quite a few systems out there that do worse!
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37 However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot
38 of bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you
39 may encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: "op/stat",
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42 In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this
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47 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
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49 Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200
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