| 1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
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| 2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
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| 3 | designed to be readable as is.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME
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| 6 |
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| 7 | README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 10 |
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| 11 | This file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists
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| 12 | known problems.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | =head1 BUILD AND INSTALL
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| 15 |
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| 16 | =head2 Requirements
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| 17 |
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| 18 | I have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server.
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| 19 | I can't say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had been released
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| 20 | for BeOS BONE, I suspect, there is a good chance, that it still compiles on
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| 21 | a BONE system. The only change I've made, that affects BONE systems is the
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| 22 | recognition of whether it is a BONE system or not in C<hints/beos.sh>. Now
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| 23 | network socket support should remain enabled on BONE systems. This might
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| 24 | as well break the build, though.
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| 25 |
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| 26 | As more recent versions of autoconf require flock() support, I wrote a flock()
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| 27 | emulation (flock_server) and released it on BeBits:
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| 28 |
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| 29 | http://www.bebits.com/app/4030
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| 30 |
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| 31 | If you want to build a Perl with flock() support, you have to install this
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| 32 | package first.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | =head2 Configure
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| 35 |
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| 36 | With flock() support:
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| 37 |
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| 38 | CFLAGS=-I/path/to/flock/server/headers ./configure.gnu \
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| 39 | --prefix=/boot/home/config
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Replace C</path/to/flock/server/headers> with the path to the directory
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| 42 | containing the C<flock.h> header.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | Without flock() support:
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| 45 |
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| 46 | ./configure.gnu --prefix=/boot/home/config
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| 47 |
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| 48 | =head2 Build
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| 49 |
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| 50 | With flock() support:
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| 51 |
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| 52 | make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet -lflock"
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Without flock() support:
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| 55 |
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| 56 | make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet"
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| 57 |
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| 58 | C<-lnet> is needed on net server systems only and if the compiler doesn't
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| 59 | add it automatically (Be's R5 gcc does, Oliver Tappe's gcc 2.95.3 does not).
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| 60 |
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| 61 | =head2 Install
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| 62 |
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| 63 | Install all perl files:
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| 64 |
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| 65 | make install
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Create a symlink for libperl:
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| 68 |
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| 69 | cd ~/config/lib; ln -s perl5/5.8.6/BePC-beos/CORE/libperl.so .
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| 70 |
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| 71 | Replace C<5.8.6> with your respective version of Perl.
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| 72 |
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| 73 | =head1 KNOWN PROBLEMS
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| 74 |
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| 75 | =over 4
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| 76 |
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| 77 | =item *
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| 78 |
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| 79 | Network socket support is disabled for BeOS R5 net server. I didn't dare yet
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| 80 | to try enabling it and see what problems occur.
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| 81 |
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| 82 | =item *
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| 83 |
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| 84 | The LFS (large file support) tests (C<t/op/lfs> and C<xt/Fcntl/t/syslfs>) are
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| 85 | disabled as seeking beyond 2 GB is broken according to [email protected] who was the
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| 86 | last one checking the BeOS port and updating this file before me. Haven't
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| 87 | checked this myself.
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| 88 |
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| 89 | =item *
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| 90 |
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| 91 | The C<t/io/fflush> test fails at #6. As far as I can tell, this is caused by
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| 92 | a bug in the BeOS pipes implementation that occurs when starting other child
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| 93 | processes. In the particular test case a C<system("perl -e 0")> flushes the
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| 94 | stdout pipe of another child process.
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| 95 |
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| 96 | =item *
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| 97 |
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| 98 | The C<ext/POSIX/t/waitpid> test fails at #1. After all child processes are
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| 99 | gone BeOS' waitpid(-1,...) returns 0 instead of -1 (as it should). No idea
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| 100 | how to fix this.
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| 101 |
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| 102 | =back
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| 103 |
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| 104 | =head1 CONTACT
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| 105 |
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| 106 | For BeOS specifics problems feel free to mail to:
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| 107 | Ingo Weinhold <[email protected]>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | Last update: 2004-12-16
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