# $Id: PLATFORMS,v 1.7.2.3 2001-11-04 17:26:39 jason Exp $

Perl general comments:

	o Perl 5.00404 and lower often have problems with GDB.t

	o Perl on Digital Unix, WindowsNT, and MacOS has been reported
          to have problems with the Bio::DB::GDB on module (and
          consequently the test GDB.t). This is due to different
          versions of HTML::Parser.

	o DB.t has intermittent time-out failures (which will most
	  likely cause tests 3 and/or 27 to fail)

	o Index.t will fail if you have an out-of-date DBM file
	  installation


Tested systems & OS Specific Comments or Warnings
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Machine : Linux i386
Compiler: cc
Perl    : 5.004-5.6.0
Comments: none

Machine : Digital Unix
Compiler: cc
Perl    : 5.004
Comments: Failure on GDB.t, possibly due to LWP issues

Machine : OpenBSD 2.8 i386
Compiler: cc
Perl    : 5.6.0
Comments: none

Machine : Solaris 2.8 UltraSparc
Compiler: gcc
Perl    : 5.6.0
Comments: none

Machine : FreeBSD 4.2 i386
Compiler: gcc
Perl    : 5.005_03
Comments: none

Machine : IRIX64 6.5 SGI
Compiler: cc
Perl    : 5.004_04
Comments: Some warnings about <HANDLE> which can be safely
	  ignored. Bio::DB::GenBank/GenPept cannot be used because
	  IO::String cannot be installed on 5.004.  Bio::DB::GDB will
	  not work on pre 5.005 versions of perl.

Machine : Win32, WinNT i386
Compiler: --
Perl    : ActiveState Perl 5.6
Comments: Likely failure of Index.t (i.e., the modules in Bio/Index/),
          File::Temp potentially broken (causing at least BPpsilite to fail)
	  See http://bioperl.org/Core/windows-bioperl.html for more info on 
	  installing on Windows.

Machine : MacOS
Compiler: --
Perl    : MacPerl 5.004
Comments: Issues and possible ways to fix them summarized by Todd Richmond
          at http://bioperl.org/Core/mac-bioperl.html