| 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 |
| |
| perlhaiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku |
| |
| =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| |
| This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists |
| known problems. |
| |
| =head1 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 perl5/5.16.2/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so . |
| |
| Replace C<5.16.2> with your respective version of Perl. |
| |
| =head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS |
| |
| The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311: |
| |
| =over 4 |
| |
| =item * |
| |
| Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM. |
| |
| =item * |
| |
| The F<ext/Socket/t/socketpair.t> test fails. More precisely: the subtests |
| using datagram sockets fail. Unix datagram sockets aren't implemented in |
| Haiku yet. |
| |
| =item * |
| |
| A subtest of the F<ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t> test fails. This is due to Haiku |
| not implementing C</dev/log> support yet. |
| |
| =item * |
| |
| The tests F<lib/Net/Ping/t/450_service.t> and F<lib/Net/Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t> |
| fail. This is due to bugs in Haiku's network stack implementation. |
| |
| =back |
| |
| =head1 CONTACT |
| |
| For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers: |
| L<http://ports.haiku-files.org/> |
| |
| The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>. |
| |
| Last update: 2008-10-29 |
