perlhurd

perlhurd

• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
  • Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
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NAME

perlhurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd

DESCRIPTION

If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution ( see http://www.debian.org/ ), even if an official, stable release has not yet been made. The old "gnu-0.2" binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems.

Known Problems with Perl on Hurd

The Perl test suite may still report some errors on the Hurd. The "lib/anydbm" and "pragma/warnings" tests will almost certainly fail. Both failures are not really specific to the Hurd, as indicated by