2008/1/12, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Reini Urban wrote: > | not over this weekend please! > | I'm still on a business trip somewhere in detroit with only my laptop > | and poor internet connection. > | next weekend would be better. > > That's fine, it can happen whenever you're ready. I'm holding off on > almost anything perl-related until then. > > | most modules build out of the box. > > Most?? Which don't?
See http://cpantesters.perl.org/author/RURBAN.html for 5.10 only > | and the errors I found are for 5.8.8 also. just the B modules are > | problematic, B::Generate I fixed recently. > | The 5.10 B compiler suite is not ready yet. > > Does that affect the general readability of 5.10 for general > consumption? I'm a bit concerned about making such a major upgrade too > early. No, not all. The perl compiler was removed from CORE for all platforms, and is a standalone CPAN module now, where certain parts don't work yet good enough to produce e.g. optimized C code. Nobody stepped in yet to complete it. > | name proposals of the archlib? The generated ones as they used to be > | in older days? > > AFAIK our perl packages used to use the default, which is archname: > cygwin-thread-multi-64int. It's a bit long, and makes for file listings > more than 80 chars wide. Some ideas from what other distros *would* do, > based on their other platforms: > * Fedora, Gentoo: i686-cygwin-thread-multi > * Debian, Ubuntu: nothing (archlib == privlib) > > The Debian method makes me wonder if there's any benefit at all to the > lib/arch differential, being that Cygwin only supports one arch (i686). > ~ Unless one day there will be separate x86_64 build? Doubtful, given > that GCC still doesn't support amd64 PE/COFF. Hopefully there will be! It would feature MUCH faster function calls. I'm just working on C::DynaLib to support the new gcc (hmm, something broke there in the last two years) and 64bit fastcall convention. > OTOH, if there is still a point to the archlib, Cygwin's perl has been > threaded for quite a while. Maybe i686-cygwin will suffice? i686-cygwin sounds good. Better than just cygwin. -- Reini ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list Cygwin-ports-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
