New Hurd README

To: jhi@iki.fi
Message-Id: <199903061601.RAA00185@delius.kettenis.nl>

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 Notes on Perl on the Hurd
-Last Updated: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:11:14 +0100
+Last Updated: Sat,  6 Mar 1999 16:07:59 +0100
 Written by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
 
-* Known Problems
+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.
 
-There are several problems with Perl on the Hurd.  Most of them are
-related to bugs in the OS, some might be actual bugs in Perl.
+* Known Problems
 
-The database code has problems that make Perl crash.  When running the
-test-suite one of the tests will crash.  Note that on the Hurd when a
-program crashes, the crash server suspends the program.  Continuing
-the program will cause it to exit.
+The Perl testsuite may still report some errors on the Hurd.  The
+`lib/anydbm.t' and `op/stat.t' will most certainly fail.  The first
+fails because Berkeley DB 2 does not allow empty keys and the test
+tries to use them anyway.  This is not really a Hurd bug.  The same
+test fails on Linux with version 2.1 of the GNU C Library.  The second
+is a bug is a bug in the Hurd's filesystem, that we have not been able
+to fix yet.  I don't think it is crucial.
 
 The socket tests may fail if the network is not configured.  You have
 to make `/hurd/pfinet' the translator for `/servers/socket/2', giving
 it the right arguments.  Try `/hurd/pfinet --help' for more
-information.  It seems that it is currently not possible to do this
-right when you do not have a supported network device.  Therefore all
-tests that use INET sockets fail on my system, suggesting that the
-`localhost' address may not be defined.
+information.
 
 Here are the statistics for Perl 5.005_03 on my system:
 
 Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-lib/anydbm.t                 12    3  25.00%  1, 4, 9
-lib/db-btree.t    0    11    ??   ??       %  ??
-lib/db-hash.t   255 65280    62   42  67.74%  15, 22-62
-lib/db-recno.t    2   512    78   61  78.21%  17, 19-78
-lib/io_pipe.t                10   ??       %  ??
-lib/io_sock.t    46 11776     5    5 100.00%  1-5
-lib/io_udp.t     46 11776     3    3 100.00%  1-3
-lib/socket.t                  6    6 100.00%  1-6
+lib/anydbm.t                 12    1   8.33%  12
 op/stat.t                    58    1   1.72%  4
-op/time.t                     5    1  20.00%  2
 5 tests skipped, plus 14 subtests skipped.
-Failed 10/188 test scripts, 94.68% okay. 121/6467 subtests failed, 98.13% okay.
+Failed 2/189 test scripts, 98.94% okay. 2/6669 subtests failed, 99.97% okay.
+
+There are quite a few systems out there that do worse!
+
+However, since I am running a very recent Hurd snapshot, in which a lot of
+bugs that were exposed by the Perl testsuite have been fixed, you may
+encounter more failures.  Likely candidates are: `lib/io_pipe.t',
+`lib/io_sock.t', `lib/io_udp.t' and `lib/time.t'.