- NAME
- DESCRIPTION
- BUILD AND INSTALL
- KNOWN PROBLEMS
- CONTACT

# NAME

perlhaiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku

# 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 perl5/5.26.0/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .

Replace `5.26.0` 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 cpan/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 cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t test fails. This is due to Haiku not implementing /dev/log support yet.

- The tests dist/Net-Ping/t/450_service.t and dist/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 <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>.

Last update: 2008-10-29