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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,



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     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 [email protected] 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 <[email protected]>

     Last update: 2004-12-16



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     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | runtime/perl-512 |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
     +---------------+------------------+
NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.








































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