3 If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
4 It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
5 designed to be readable as is.
9 perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
13 If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian
14 GNU/Hurd distribution ( see L<https://www.debian.org/> ), even if an
15 official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2"
16 binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems.
18 =head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
20 The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The
21 "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail.
22 Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the
25 The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have
26 to make "/hurd/pfinet" the translator for "/servers/socket/2", giving
27 it the right arguments. Try "/hurd/pfinet --help" for more
30 Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system:
32 Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
33 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
34 lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12
35 pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215
37 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped.
38 Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed,
41 There are quite a few systems out there that do worse!
43 However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of
44 bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may
45 encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: "op/stat", "lib/io_pipe",
46 "lib/io_sock", "lib/io_udp" and "lib/time".
48 In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this
49 document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting
56 Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200