DESCRIPTION
This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists known problems.BUILD AND INSTALL
The build procedure is completely standard:
./Configure -de make make install
Make perl executable and create a symlink for libperl:
chmod a+x /boot/common/bin/perl cd /boot/common/lib; ln -s perl5/5.22.2/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .
Replace 5.22.2 with your respective version of Perl.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311:- Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM.
- The ext/Socket/t/socketpair.t test fails. More precisely: the subtests using datagram sockets fail. Unix datagram sockets aren't implemented in Haiku yet.
- A subtest of the ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t test fails. This is due to Haiku not implementing /dev/log support yet.
- The tests lib/Net/Ping/t/450_service.t and lib/Net/Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t fail. This is due to bugs in Haiku's network stack implementation.
CONTACT
For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers: <http://ports.haiku-files.org/>The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <[email protected]>.
Last update: 2008-10-29