I just posted this message to the perl5-porters mailing list. In principle this is all that's needed to get the current Perl development release working on the Hurd.
Mark ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: 10 Dec 1998 22:00:57 +0100 From: Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: [PATCH]5.005_54 (CONFIG) Added support for GNU/Hurd This patch adds support for the GNU/Hurd. It configures and builds OK, but there are still some tests that fail. Most tests fail because of OS bugs and/or because I don't have a network card which currently means that the INET protocal family is not available. I sent a similar patch some time ago to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but got no reaction. This patch is a little different since it only adds a hints file, and doesn't touch the Configure file. And it is of course against the latest test release. Anyway, it would be great if this could be included in the next release. Mark - --- /dev/null Thu Feb 19 16:30:24 1998 +++ perl5.005_54/hints/gnu.sh Thu Dec 10 20:48:09 1998 @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Hints/gnu.sh +# Last modified: Thu Dec 10 20:47:28 CET 1998 +# Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + +# libnsl is unusable on the Hurd. +# XXX remove this once SUNRPC is implemented. +set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ nsl / /'` +shift +libswanted="$*" + +case "$optimize" in +'') optimize='-O2' ;; +esac + +# Flags needed to produce shared libraries. +lddlflags='-shared' + +# Flags needed by programs that use dynamic linking. +ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' + +# The following routines are only available as stubs in GNU libc. +# XXX remove this once metaconf detects the GNU libc stubs. +d_msgctl='undef' +d_msgget='undef' +d_msgrcv='undef' +d_msgsnd='undef' +d_semctl='undef' +d_semget='undef' +d_semop='undef' +d_shmat='undef' +d_shmctl='undef' +d_shmdt='undef' +d_shmget='undef' ------- End of forwarded message -------
