Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of dev-lang/perl

Timestamp:

08/20/07 12:22:48 (8 years ago)

Author:

brecht

Comment:

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dev-lang/perl

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+[[TOC]]
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+= 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
+
+Dynamically loading {{{encoding.so}}} in a small test application is not a problem, so that library is not to blame.
+
+Perhaps this has something to do with the 32MB global add-on limit in BeOS.