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PERLBEOS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLBEOS(1) NAME
README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS DESCRIPTION
Notes for building Perl under BeOS. General Issues with Perl on BeOS To compile perl under BeOS R4 x86: ./Configure -d and hit ^C when it asks you if you want to make changes to config.sh; edit config.sh and do the following: change d_socket='define' to ='undef'; remove SDBM, Errno, and Socket from dynamic_ext= and nonxs_ext=; add '#define bool short' to x2p/a2p.h; ../Configure -S; make; make install cd ~/config/lib; ln -s 5.00502/BeOS-BePC/CORE/libperl.so . (substitute 5.00502 with the appropriate filename) BeOS Release-specific Notes R4 x86 Dynamic loading finally works! Yay! This means you can compile your own modules into perl. However, Sockets and Errno still don't work. (Hopefully, sockets will at least work by R5, if not sooner.) R4 PPC I have not tested this. I rather severely doubt that dynamic loading will work. (My BeBox is in pieces right now, following a nasty disk crash.) You may have to disable dynamic loading to get the thing to compile at all. (use `./Configure` without -d, and say 'no' to 'Build a shared libperl.so'.) Contact Information If you have comments, problem reports, or even patches or bugfixes (gasp!) please email me. 28 Jan 1999 Tom Spindler dogcow@isi.net Update 2002-05-30 The following tests fail on 5.8.0 Perl in BeOS Personal 5.03: t/op/lfs............................FAILED at test 17 t/op/magic..........................FAILED at test 24 ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs..................FAILED at test 17 ext/File/Glob/t/basic...............FAILED at test 3 ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13 ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1 The reasons for the failures are as follows: o The t/op/lfs and ext/Fcntl/t/syslfs failures indicate that the LFS (large file support, files larger than 2 gigabytes) doesn't work from Perl (BeFS itself is well capable of supporting large files). What fails is that trying to position the file pointer past 2 giga- bytes doesn't work right, the position gets truncated to its lower 32 bits. o The op/magic failures look like something funny going on with $0 and $^X that I can't now figure out: none of the generated pathnames are wrong as such, they just seem to accumulate "./" prefixes and infixes in ways that define logic. o The Glob/t/basic indicates a bug in the getpw*() functions: they do not always return the correct user db entries. o The sigaction #13 means that signal mask doesn't get properly restored if sigaction returns early. o The waitpid failure means that after there are no more child processes, waitpid is supposed to start returning -1 (and set errno to ECHILD). In BeOS, it doesn't seem to. Disclaimer: I just installed BeOS Personal Edition 5.0 and the Developer Tools, that is the whole extent of my BeOS expertise, so please don't ask me for further help in BeOS Perl problems. jhi@iki.fi perl v5.8.0 2003-02-18 PERLBEOS(1)
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PERLUTS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLUTS(1) NAME
perluts - Perl under UTS SYNOPSIS
This document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using "man perluts". The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in a solidly working installation. DESCRIPTION
Perl 5.7.2 (Developmental) or Perl 5.8.x (forthcoming) for UTS BUILDING PERL ON UTS
NOTE: Some sites have redefined the way uname works, and if yours does this, special steps must be taken so that Configure can recognize your system as a UTS system. To see if you are in this category, issue the command "uname -a". It should look something like: uts juno 4 4.4 9672 370 At any rate, the first field should be "uts". If this is not the case; supposing it is, say telcoUTS, create a script, uts/uname (i.e. uname, in the subdirectory "uts" of the main Perl source dir): # uname /usr/bin/uname "$@" | sed -e 's/^telcoUTS/uts/' and when you execute Configure, do it as below, except for adding PATH=uts:$PATH as a prefix. I.e. do: PATH=uts:$PATH ./Configure ... There is no need to do an interactive configure, just type ./Configure -de [-Dusedevel] [-Doptimize=-g ] 2>&1 | tee Conf.out "-Dusedevel" may be required to configure Perl 5.7.2 non-interactively. Use -Doptimize=-g if you want to run Perl under sdb or gdb, OR if you want to be able to use the -D command line flags to perl, which are occasionally useful in debugging perl scripts. In this and the following steps, the "2>&1 | tee XXX.out" records all output from the process, which will be useful if anything unexpected goes wrong. Then do the compilation with make 2>&1 | tee make.out Finally, test using make test 2>&1 | tee make-test.out In the output, the only failures you should see should look like: lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.........Use of uninitialized value ... FAILED at test 57 lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintc..........ok lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.........FAILED at test 204 lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf...........Use of uninitialized value ... Illegal division by zero at ../lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm line 314. FAILED at test 71 lib/Math/Complex...................exp: OVERFLOW FAILED at test 250 lib/Math/Trig......................exp: OVERFLOW ok lib/Memoize/t/array................ok ... lib/Net/protoent...................ok lib/Net/servent....................FAILED at test 0 This means that everything passes except for some problems in the packages "Math::BigInt", "Math::Complex", and "Math::Trig". The lib/Net/servent failure seems to be a bug in the test program. To confirm this, from the main Perl source dir, do: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` ./perl -Ilib lib/Net/servent.t and it should output 1..3 ok 1 ok 2 ok 3 Installing the built perl on UTS Run the command "make install" AUTHOR
Hal Morris UTS Global LLC email: hom00@utsglobal.com perl v5.8.0 2003-02-18 PERLUTS(1)