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authorNorton T. Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>2001-06-27 09:46:03 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-06-27 17:02:55 +0000
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@@ -14,7 +14,16 @@ As of perl5.004_04, all tests pass under:
Watcom 10.6 with Beta/970211.wcc.update.tar.F
socket3r.lib Nov21 1996.
-Update June 2001: Perl 5.6.1 most probably also works just fine in QNX.
+Update June 2001: Perl 5.6.1 works fine in QNX4 with
+a few 'known' failures in the test suite.
+
+[ Perl 5.6.0 is shipping with QNX RTP (aka QNX6, Neutrino), but
+the build does not appear to be straightforward. If anyone has
+more data in this regard, please let me know.
+
+These notes were originally written for QNX4 and do not
+necessarily apply to Neutrino, but see hints/qnx.sh for
+more information. ]
=head2 Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX
@@ -63,7 +72,21 @@ from quics for earlier versions.
=head2 Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX
-There is currently no support for dynamically linked libraries.
+There is no support for dynamically linked libraries in QNX4.
+
+The following tests may report errors:
+
+ext/Cwd/Cwd.t will complain if `pwd` and cwd don't give
+the same results. cwd calls `fullpath -t`, so if you
+cd `fullpath -t` before running the test, it will
+pass.
+
+lib/File/Find/taint.t will complain if '.' is in your
+PATH. The PATH test is triggered because cwd calls
+`fullpath -t`.
+
+ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t Still investigating
+ext/POSIX/sigaction.t Still investigating
=head2 QNX auxiliary files