| 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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| 7 | README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 10 |
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| 11 | If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian
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| 12 | GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ), even if an
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| 13 | official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2"
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| 14 | binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems.
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| 15 |
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| 16 | =head2 Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
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| 17 |
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| 18 | The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The
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| 19 | "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail.
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| 20 | Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by the
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| 21 | test suite output.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured. You have
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