01-26-2011
Any Beos versions work on AMD64-type PCs?
Preparing to get my first home PC via custom-build shop. It will have three hard disk drives...one to be used only for trial of various OSs. Was hoping to test out Haiku, but according to 'supported architectures' table at Wikipedia ("Comparison of open source operating systems"), it only works on x86/i386.IA-32, and x86SMP. I'm having AMD64 built...either AthlonII (x2,x3, or x4) or PhenomII (x2,x3, or x4), so seems Haiku is dead-end for me, but still hoping for BeOS. Will any other BeOS (BeOS R5, OpenBeOS, BlueOS, etc.) run on x86-64 PC?
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perlbeos
PERLBEOS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLBEOS(1)
NAME
README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS
DESCRIPTION
This file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists known problems.
BUILD AND INSTALL
Requirements
I have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server. I can't say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had
been released for BeOS BONE, I suspect, there is a good chance, that it still compiles on a BONE system. The only change I've made, that
affects BONE systems is the recognition of whether it is a BONE system or not in "hints/beos.sh". Now network socket support should remain
enabled on BONE systems. This might as well break the build, though.
As more recent versions of autoconf require flock() support, I wrote a flock() emulation (flock_server) and released it on BeBits:
http://www.bebits.com/app/4030
If you want to build a Perl with flock() support, you have to install this package first.
Configure
With flock() support:
CFLAGS=-I/path/to/flock/server/headers ./configure.gnu
--prefix=/boot/home/config
Replace "/path/to/flock/server/headers" with the path to the directory containing the "flock.h" header.
Without flock() support:
./configure.gnu --prefix=/boot/home/config
Build
With flock() support:
make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet -lflock"
Without flock() support:
make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet"
"-lnet" is needed on net server systems only and if the compiler doesn't add it automatically (Be's R5 gcc does, Oliver Tappe's gcc 2.95.3
does not).
Install
Install all perl files:
make install
Create a symlink for libperl:
cd ~/config/lib; ln -s perl5/5.8.6/BePC-beos/CORE/libperl.so .
Replace 5.8.6 with your respective version of Perl.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
o Network socket support is disabled for BeOS R5 net server. I didn't dare yet to try enabling it and see what problems occur.
o The LFS (large file support) tests ("t/op/lfs" and "xt/Fcntl/t/syslfs") are disabled as seeking beyond 2 GB is broken according to
jhi@iki.fi who was the last one checking the BeOS port and updating this file before me. Haven't checked this myself.
o The "t/io/fflush" test fails at #6. As far as I can tell, this is caused by a bug in the BeOS pipes implementation that occurs when
starting other child processes. In the particular test case a "system("perl -e 0")" flushes the stdout pipe of another child process.
o The "ext/POSIX/t/waitpid" test fails at #1. After all child processes are gone BeOS' waitpid(-1,...) returns 0 instead of -1 (as it
should). No idea how to fix this.
CONTACT
For BeOS specifics problems feel free to mail to: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Last update: 2004-12-16
perl v5.12.1 2010-04-26 PERLBEOS(1)