---
name: "perlhaiku"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-doc"
version: "5.40.1-6+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/perlhaiku"
---

# perlhaiku(1)

Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku

## NAME

perlhaiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku

## DESCRIPTION

This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists known problems.

## BUILD AND INSTALL

The build procedure is completely standard:

```
  ./Configure -de
  make
  make install
```

Make perl executable and create a symlink for libperl:

```
  chmod a+x /boot/common/bin/perl
  cd /boot/common/lib; ln -s perl5/5.40.1/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so .
```

Replace `5.40.1` with your respective version of Perl.

## KNOWN PROBLEMS

The following problems are encountered with Haiku revision 28311:

- •

  Perl cannot be compiled with threading support ATM.

- •

  The *cpan/Socket/t/socketpair.t* test fails. More precisely: the subtests using datagram sockets fail. Unix datagram sockets aren't implemented in Haiku yet.

- •

  A subtest of the *cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t* test fails. This is due to Haiku not implementing */dev/log* support yet.

- •

  The tests *dist/Net-Ping/t/450\_service.t* and *dist/Net-Ping/t/510\_ping\_udp.t* fail. This is due to bugs in Haiku's network stack implementation.

## CONTACT

For Haiku specific problems contact the HaikuPorts developers: \<https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports\>

The initial Haiku port was done by Ingo Weinhold \<ingo\_weinhold@gmx.de\>.

Last update: 2008-10-29