
  P O R T I N G

  ePerl was written with portability in mind. Additionally to overcome the
  system dependend characteristics ePerl uses a GNU autoconf based
  configuration scheme which tries hard to determine the information both from
  the installed Perl interpreter and from scratch via own GNU autoconf tests.

  So ePerl already compiles out-of-the-box on a lot of systems. At least the
  following Unix/Compiler/Perl variants were sucessfully tested by the author
  in the past:

  System        Platform  Perl     Compiler       Testhost    Time     ePerl
  ------------- --------- -------- -------------- ----------- -------- -----
  FreeBSD 2.1.5 i586/166  5.004_01 GNU cc 2.7.2.2 en1         01.08.97 2.2.1
  FreeBSD 2.1.5 i586/166  5.004    pgcc 2.7.2c    en1         01.08.97 2.2.1
  FreeBSD 2.2.1 i586/90   5.003_99 pgcc 2.7.2c    en3         01.08.97 2.2.1
  BSD/OS 2.1    i486      5.004_01 BSDI shlicc2   taz         01.08.97 2.2.1
  SunOS 4.1.3   SS20      5.004    GNU cc 2.7.2   sunfi1      01.08.97 2.2.1
  Solaris 2.5.1 SS10/41   5.003_95 GNU cc 2.7.2.1 sunti5      01.08.97 2.2.1
  HP-UX 10.20   A9000/780 5.004    HP cc          hpeickel15  02.08.97 2.2.1
  IRIX 6.2      IP20      5.004    SGI cc         sgihalle13  02.08.97 2.2.1
  Linux 2.0.18  i586/133  5.003_26 GNU cc 2.7.2   orlando     02.08.97 2.2.1

  If your Unix derivate is not on this list, don't panic. As we said, ePerl
  tries to determine the information itself, so there is a good chance that
  ePerl finds alternatives even for your system. At least for the compilation
  ePerl does a trick: It don't tries to find a reasonable compiler and
  reasonable flags for it. Instead it uses the one your Perl interpreter was
  compiled with. Because the Perl 5 Porters already tried hard to determine
  the best combination, so ePerl can only benefit from it.

  If it still fails to compile or run, first try to see where the problem
  resides. Usually problems can occur when you are using a brain-dead compiler
  or a too old Perl version. Try to upgrade or use better variants.

