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PortLog: dev-lang/perl
version 5.8.8
| R5 | untested |
| BONE | unstable |
| Haiku | untested |
revision 1 (brecht) - [BONE]
Following the instructions in the supplied README.beos, it is easy enough to build Perl on BeOS.
On BONE, a large number of tests fail with an error similar to this one:
load_add_on(/boot/home/Documents/code/perl-5.8.8/t/../lib/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.so) : -1 (General OS error) Can't load '../lib/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.so' for module PerlIO::encoding: General OS error at ../lib/XSLoader.pm line 70. at ../lib/PerlIO/encoding.pm line 14
When kernel debugging is enabled, the following is printed to the syslog:
KERN 'perl'[849]: clone_area_gen error
It seems that Firefox suffered from a similar problem at one point: http://www.bebits.com/talkback/2715?page=14. This was because of the global 32MB add-on limit in BeOS.
Dynamically loading encoding.so in a small test application is not a problem, so that library is not to blame. When linking this small test application with libflock however, the same error occurs - sometimes! The error doesn't seem to be reproducible but random. Perhaps this has something to do with the 32MB global add-on limit in BeOS?
The author of flock_server, Ingo Weinhold, only develops on R5. Hence, there could be a problem with flock_server on BONE.
When compiling Perl without flock() support (removing flock.h), there are no load_add_on() errors. This does indeed support the idea that there is a problem with flock_server on BONE.
When statically linking all extensions, load_add_on() is not used, and thus there is no errors. This results in a perl executable of 6MB though.
To build Perl with dynamically loaded extensions, we need to find out what the incompatibility between flock_server and BONE is (ticket #38).
The built perl executable will sometimes output the following warning:
Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
This has something to do with the SIGCHLD POSIX signal. To me, it's not entirely clear whether the perl source code is incorrect, or BeOS (ticket #40).
5.10.0
| R5 | untested |
| BONE | untested |
| Haiku | unstable |
external - [Haiku]
Ported for Haiku by Ingo Weinhold. Available as Optional Package from Haiku.
TODO: According to this ticket, it does not yet include socket support.
