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NAME
       perlbeos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS

DESCRIPTION
       This file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists known problems.

BUILD AND INSTALL
   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 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.

   Configure
       With flock() support:

               CFLAGS=-I/path/to/flock/server/headers ./configure.gnu \
                       --prefix=/boot/home/config

       Replace "/path/to/flock/server/headers" with the path to the directory containing the "flock.h" header.

       Without flock() support:

               ./configure.gnu --prefix=/boot/home/config

   Build
       With flock() support:

               make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet -lflock"

       Without flock() support:

               make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet"

       "-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).

   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 5.8.6 with your respective version of Perl.

       ·   The 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.

CONTACT
       For BeOS specifics problems feel free to mail to: Ingo Weinhold <[email protected]>

       Last update: 2004-12-16



perl v5.16.3                                          2013-03-04                                          PERLBEOS(1)