Sadly, perlport doesn't have a complete list of values for $^O.  A
hopefully mostly complete list can be seen here:

https://github.com/dagolden/Perl-OSType/blob/master/lib/Perl/OSType.pm#L17


On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Reini Urban <rur...@cpanel.net> wrote:

> On 02/16/2015 02:55 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Reini Urban <rur...@cpanel.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/16/2015 02:41 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> In the "PASS" matrix there are various platforms that are unclear to
> me.
> >>> For example
> >>> http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/T/Term-ReadPassword-Win32.html
> >>> has "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" and it is not clear to me what operating
> system
> >>> does this really cover.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a page listing the known platforms and what might they cover?
> >>> If no, would it be possible to create such page?
> >>> If yes, would it be possible to link from the top of the "PASS Summary"
> >>> table there?
> >>
> >> Googling might help:
> >>
> >> https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
> >> "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the
> >> GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular
> >> Debian package set."
> >>
> >> So it's FreeBSD with .deb packaging.
> >>
> >> There are several sites covering the output of uname.
> >> http://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/OperatingSystems is a popular one
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Oh, so are the column names in that report the output of uname?
> > On platforms where there is no uname?
>
> perldoc perlport => PLATFORMS
>
> uname <=> $^O  <=> $Config{'archname'}
>
>


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