Haiku Port

Howdy,

I've been working on porting Perl 5.10.0 to Haiku (an open source BeOS 
clone, cf. http://haiku-os.org) and so far things look fine. All but five 
tests pass. Four of them can be explained by bugs in Haiku or missing 
features, one is puzzling me, though:


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/Temp/ports/perl/perl-5.10.0/t> ./perl harness ../lib/Module/Build/t/xs.t
../lib/Module/Build/t/xs....ok 9/22Can't exec "FOO=BAR": No such file or 
directory at 
/Temp/ports/perl/perl-5.10.0/t/../lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 225.

#   Failed test at ../lib/Module/Build/t/xs.t line 94.
../lib/Module/Build/t/xs....NOK 12/22#          got: 'error building 
blib/arch/auto/Simple/Simple.so from lib/Simple.o at 
/Temp/ports/perl/perl-5.10.0/t/../lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 213.
# '
#     expected: ''
../lib/Module/Build/t/xs....ok 20/22# Looks like you failed 1 test of 22.   
 
../lib/Module/Build/t/xs....dubious                                         
 
        Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 12
        Failed 1/22 tests, 95.45% okay
Failed Test                Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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../lib/Module/Build/t/xs.t    1   256    22    1  12
Failed 1/1 test scripts. 1/22 subtests failed.
Files=1, Tests=22, 13 wallclock secs ( 4.45 cusr +  2.68 csys =  7.13 CPU)
Failed 1/1 test programs. 1/22 subtests failed.

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In lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 213 we find an invocation of 
do_system(), which in subtest 9 gets passed the following:

  FOO=BAR gcc -shared -o blib/arch/auto/Simple/Simple.so lib/Simple.o

Since Perl's built-in system() doesn't seem to understand the "FOO=BAR" as 
an environment variable assignment, it ends up calling execvp() with 
"FOO=BAR" as file argument, which unsurprisingly fails with ENOENT.

If I understand the test correctly it does indeed try to push "FOO=BAR" 
into the linker's environment. I'm clueless why this isn't handled 
correctly, though. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong here?

Thanks!

CU, Ingo

• Haiku Port by Ingo Weinhold
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