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- If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
- It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
- designed to be readable as is.
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists
- known problems.
-
- =head1 BUILD AND INSTALL
-
- =head2 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 C<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.
-
- =head2 Configure
-
- With flock() support:
-
- CFLAGS=-I/path/to/flock/server/headers ./configure.gnu \
- --prefix=/boot/home/config
-
- Replace C</path/to/flock/server/headers> with the path to the directory
- containing the C<flock.h> header.
-
- Without flock() support:
-
- ./configure.gnu --prefix=/boot/home/config
-
- =head2 Build
-
- With flock() support:
-
- make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet -lflock"
-
- Without flock() support:
-
- make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet"
-
- C<-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).
-
- =head2 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 C<5.8.6> with your respective version of Perl.
-
- =head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
- =over 4
-
- =item *
-
- Network socket support is disabled for BeOS R5 net server. I didn't dare yet
- to try enabling it and see what problems occur.
-
- =item *
-
- The LFS (large file support) tests (C<t/op/lfs> and C<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.
-
- =item *
-
- The C<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 C<system("perl -e 0")> flushes the
- stdout pipe of another child process.
-
- =item *
-
- The C<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.
-
- =back
-
- =head1 CONTACT
-
- For BeOS specifics problems feel free to mail to:
- Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@cs.tu-berlin.de>
-
- Last update: 2004-12-16
-