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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 perl5/5.16.2/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .

       Replace 5.16.2 with your respective version of Perl.

KNOWN PROBLEMS

       The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311:

       o   Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM.

       o   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.

       o   A subtest of the ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t test fails. This is due to Haiku not implementing "/dev/log" support yet.

       o   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/ <http://ports.haiku-files.org/>

       The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>.

       Last update: 2008-10-29

perl v5.16.2							    2012-10-25							      PERLHAIKU(1)