On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:24, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > Seems like a lot of upgrading just to > > go from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1, but I guess a lot of bug fixes > > and enhancements were added. > > There were a few. The one that mattered the most to me is that the > locale issues are fixed so that you don't have to reset your locale on > Red Hat 9 anymore. But really, if it was working for you, you don't > need to upgrade. >
But while 5.8.0 compiles clean (after a LANG=;export LANG), trying to get 5.8.1, 5.8.2 and 5.8.3 to compile on Red Hat 9 (gcc 3.2.2-5 and glibc 2.3.2-27.9.7) with: sh Configure -de make make test fails on test 17 at lib/Time/Local The problems seem to have to do with my PCs havint PET (Lima, Peru time) timezone, and have thus far precluded my upgrading perl. Rafael -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html