README.haiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku
This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists known problems.
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 perl5/5.12.2/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .
Replace 5.12.2
with your respective version of Perl.
The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311:
Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM.
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.
A subtest of the ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t
test fails. This is due to Haiku
not implementing /dev/log
support yet.
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.
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