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From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 released
> ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003
There's a minor nit with building modules on this build of perl. If
Math::BigInt::GMP is not installed, you'll get the following message every
time you run nmake/dmake:
Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to
Math::BigInt::FastCalc at C:/ap1003/lib/Win32API/File.pm line 20
Everything still works ok - it's just a little mystifying when you first see
it, that's all.
It's all because of this code in Win32API/File.pm (version 0.1001 only,
afaict):
# Math::BigInt optimizations courtesy of Tels
BEGIN {
require Math::BigInt;
if (defined($Math::BigInt::VERSION) && $Math::BigInt::VERSION >= 1.60) {
Math::BigInt->import(lib => 'GMP');
}
}
My other builds of perl 5.10.0 (and a recent 5.11.0 snapshot) have version
0.1001_01 which doesn't try to load Math::BigInt::GMP and therefore doesn't
throw up that message. I guess the simple solution is for ActiveState to
avoid version 0.1001 in future releases.
I see the problem has already been reported at
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Win32API-File (6 months
ago) and that future releases of Win32API-File will address this issue. I'm
not sure where version 0.1001_01 comes from, but I guess it is one such
"future release".
I don't recall seeing the message with build 1002, so I'm guessing it used
version 0.1001_01 and that somehow version 0.1001 has found its way into
build 1003.
Cheers,
Rob
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