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- If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
- It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
- designed to be readable as is.
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian
- GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ), even if an
- official, stable release has not yet been made. The old `gnu-0.2'
- binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems.
-
- =head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
-
- The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The
- `lib/anydbm' and `pragma/warnings' tests will almost certainly fail.
- Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the
- test suite output.
-
- The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have
- to make `/hurd/pfinet' the translator for `/servers/socket/2', giving
- it the right arguments. Try `/hurd/pfinet --help' for more
- information.
-
- Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_62 on my system:
-
- Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- lib/anydbm.t 12 1 8.33% 12
- pragma/warnings 333 1 0.30% 215
-
- 8 tests and 24 subtests skipped.
- Failed 2/229 test scripts, 99.13% okay. 2/10850 subtests failed, 99.98% okay.
-
- There are quite a few systems out there that do worse!
-
- However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of
- bugs that were exposed by the Perl test suite have been fixed, you may
- encounter more failures. Likely candidates are: `op/stat', `lib/io_pipe',
- `lib/io_sock', `lib/io_udp' and `lib/time'.
-
- In any way, if you're seeing failures beyond those mentioned in this
- document, please consider upgrading to the latest Hurd before reporting
- the failure as a bug.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
-
- Last Updated: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:50:30 +0200
-
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