ANNOUNCE: Perl 5.8.0 Release Candidate 3
Test, Test and Test. 5.8.0 is scheduled to be released this Thursday. This is your last chance to ensure that everything works for you before 5.8.0 is released. =head1 Perl 5.8.0 Release Candidate 3 The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of Perl 5.8.0. The RC3 includes changes made by the Perl 5 development team since RC1 and RC2 (released 2002-06-01 and 2002-06-21) If you had problems with RC1 or RC2, please retry now. If you hadn't, please check that we didn't break anything. THE RELEASE CANDIDATE 3 IS MEANT TO BE THE LAST RELEASE CANDIDATE BEFORE THE FINAL 5.8.0 RELEASE. Please test extensively. Your help in testing the upcoming perl 5.8.0 is much appreciated. This is a source code release, not a binary release. You will need a C development environment. Please note that Perl 5.8.0 is a major new release of Perl containing many new features, enhancements to existing features and bug fixes. This version is Release Candidate 3; the purpose of this version is to permit and encourage the Perl community to conduct extensive testing and to report problems so that we, and the owners of affected Perl packages, have an opportunity to correct them. Because the process of testing the vast quantity of Perl software will take time, and because issues uncovered by this testing may result in further changes or corrections to Perl 5.8.0 and the various Perl packages, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND USING RELEASE CANDIDATE 3 IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. Please wait for the final version of Perl 5.8.0 for production use. As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment. As specified in the licenses for Perl (see the files named Artistic or Copying), THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. =head1 Where To Get It The 5.8.0 RC3 is now available at http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/src/perl-5.8.0-RC3.tgz http://cpan.valueclick.com/src/perl-5.8.0-RC3.tgz ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.0-RC3.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.0-RC3.tgz and as the CPAN mirrors catch up, in the src/ subdirectory of your nearest friendly CPAN mirror. The size of the file is 11010346 bytes and the MD5 checksum for the file is 23b6fec3187f0acbe4087670318753e2 perl-5.8.0-RC3.tgz This release should work in all UNIX/Linux and Microsoft environments, and in other environments which have POSIX/UNIX interfaces, such as BeOS, Cygwin, MPE/iX, NetWare, OS/2, QNX, VMS, VOS, and z/OS, and the appropriate C compilation environment. Mac OS Classic port of 5.8.0 is available separately, follow http://dev.macperl.org/ =head1 Why To Get It For the list of changes in 5.8.0 see the pod/perldelta.pod, available separately online at http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/doc/perldelta.pod http://cpan.valuelick.com/doc/perldelta.pod ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/CPAN/doc/perldelta.pod ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/doc/perldelta.pod (and again, eventually at all CPAN mirrors-- note, though, that these URLs are not permanent, they will be removed when the final 5.8.0 is released) The .tgz file will unpack into a directory called perl-5.8.0-RC3. =head1 How To Do It You will configure, build, and test Perl. Below is a short summary, for the full story read the INSTALL file. =head2 Configuring If you are in a UNIX-like system, you can setup Perl for compilation by changing into the perl-5.8.0-RC3 directory and issuing the following command: sh Configure -des This will simply select all the defaults for your system, INCLUDING defaulting to install in the usual location for production software. (So don't run make install if you run Configure this way!) If you are not in a UNIX-like system (say, Win32), please read the INSTALL file and any possible platform specific README files for further instructions, and skip the parts below that don't apply to your platform. If you want to go through Configure interactively (for example to change the default installation directories), do just sh Configure =head2 Building To build Perl issue the command make all Note that the build times can vary considerably. Perl 5.8.0 is about twice the size of 5.6.1, and some source code files are quite large, so your compiler might have hard time processing them. On a fast modern system with lots of CPU and memory the build can be a matter of ten minutes, but on slower/older/more heavily loaded systems it can take up to eight hours, while half an hour to an hour being common. =head2 Testing After the build has finished, it's time to test the build. make test Again, testing times vary a lot. Perl 5.8.0 has more than five times the tests of Perl 5.6.1. Fifteen minutes to half an hour is quite normal, but a slow system may easily take an hour or more. If all tests are successful, make test will say All tests successful
Re: ANNOUNCE: Perl 5.8.0 Release Candidate 3
On 14/7/02 at 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Doctor) wrote: I get [big snip] ./perl: can't resolve symbol 'Perl_get_sv' Mine installed fine after make and make test with 98 percent results into /test/perl580/bin/perl but I get similar error messages re: dyld It's late here (BST) and the build and test did take a long time (I gotta day job ;-), so I'll go through some more stuff on the test machine tomorrow. iBook (Late 2001)/Mac OS X.1.5/256MB RAM bash2.05 philbook@localhost ~ $ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=5.5, archname=darwin uname='darwin localhost 5.5 darwin kernel version 5.5: thu may 30 14:51:26 pdt 2002; root:xnuxnu-201.42.3.obj~1release_ppc power macintosh powerpc ' config_args='-des -Dprefix=/test/perl580 -Uinstallusrbinperl' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-pipe -fno-common -DINT32_MIN_BROKEN -DINT64_MIN_BROKEN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -pipe -fno-common -DINT32_MIN_BROKEN -DINT64_MIN_BROKEN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -pipe -fno-common -DINT32_MIN_BROKEN -DINT64_MIN_BROKEN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.2 19991024 (release)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-lm -lc perllibs=-lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -flat_namespace -bundle -undefined suppress -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at Jul 14 2002 20:13:39 @INC: /Library/Perl/darwin /Library/Perl /Library/Perl/darwin /Library/Perl /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/darwin /Network/Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl Pretty good though. Straight outta the box on to a Mac... Regards, Phil.
Re: ANNOUNCE: Perl 5.8.0 Release Candidate 3
(Removed [EMAIL PROTECTED], this has nothing to do with TT.) Please submit perl 5.8.0 RCn build failures to perl5porters. Use perlbug to do this if you can. (Looks like this failure prevents the use of perlbug.) If you can't please describe your environment. OS, compiler, installed patches, etc. I'll forward this to speed things up. Lupe Christoph On Sunday, 2002-07-14 at 15:12:20 -0600, The Doctor wrote: I get Script started on Sun Jul 14 14:48:21 2002 doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3$ make AutoSplitting perl library LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr2/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3:/usr/contrib/qt/lib:/usr/contrib/lib/mysql:/usr/lib ./miniperl -Ilib -e 'use AutoSplit; autosplit_lib_modules(@ARGV)' lib/*.pm LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr2/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3:/usr/contrib/qt/lib:/usr/contrib/lib/mysql:/usr/lib ./miniperl -Ilib -e 'use AutoSplit; autosplit_lib_modules(@ARGV)' lib/*/*.pm make lib/re.pm `lib/re.pm' is up to date. Making DynaLoader (static_pic) LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr2/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3:/usr/contrib/qt/lib:/usr/contrib/lib/mysql:/usr/lib cc -o perl -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/libdata/perl5/i386-bsdos/CORE perlmain.o lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a libperl.so `cat ext.libs` -lutil -lbind -ldl -ldld -lm -lc LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr2/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3:/usr/contrib/qt/lib:/usr/contrib/lib/mysql:/usr/lib cc -o suidperl -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/libdata/perl5/i386-bsdos/CORE perlmain.o sperl.o lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a libperl.so `cat ext.libs` -lutil -lbind -ldl -ldld -lm -lc Making utilities Making x2p stuff Making B (dynamic) Making ByteLoader (dynamic) Making Cwd (dynamic) Making DB_File (dynamic) Making Data::Dumper (dynamic) Making Devel::DProf (dynamic) Making Devel::PPPort (dynamic) Making Devel::Peek (dynamic) Making Digest::MD5 (dynamic) Making Encode (dynamic) Making Fcntl (dynamic) Making File::Glob (dynamic) Making Filter::Util::Call (dynamic) Making GDBM_File (dynamic) Making IO (dynamic) Making IPC::SysV (dynamic) Making List::Util (dynamic) Making MIME::Base64 (dynamic) Making NDBM_File (dynamic) Making Opcode (dynamic) Making POSIX (dynamic) Making PerlIO::encoding (dynamic) Making PerlIO::scalar (dynamic) Making PerlIO::via (dynamic) Making SDBM_File (dynamic) Making Socket (dynamic) Making Storable (dynamic) Making Sys::Hostname (dynamic) Making Sys::Syslog (dynamic) Making Time::HiRes (dynamic) Making Unicode::Normalize (dynamic) Making XS::APItest (dynamic) Making XS::Typemap (dynamic) Making attrs (dynamic) Making re (dynamic) Making threads (dynamic) Making threads::shared (dynamic) Making Errno (nonxs) *** Error code 1 (ignored) Everything is up to date. Type 'make test' to run test suite. doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3$ head htinst inst/bsdos.sh head: hinst/bsdos.sh: No such file or directory doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3$ head hinst/bsdos.sh * head: hinst/bsdos.*: No such file or directory doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3$ head hinst/bsdos.*/bsdos.*[Kts/bsdos.* # hints/bsdos.sh # # hints file for BSD/OS (adapted from bsd386.sh) # Original by Neil Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue Oct 4 12:01:34 EDT 1994 # Updated by Tony Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat Aug 23 12:47:45 MDT 1997 # Added 3.1 with ELF dynamic libraries (NOT in 3.1 yet. # Estimated for 4.0) SYSV IPC tested Ok so I re-enabled. # # Updated to work in post-4.0 by Todd C. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] # doctor.nl2k.ab.ca//usr/source/perl-5.8.0-RC3$ head hints/bsdos.* sh hints/bsdos.sh[K hints/bsdos.sh[K hints/bsdos.sh[K hints/bsdos.sh[Kc hints/bsdos.sha hints/bsdos.sht hints/bsdos.sh # hints/bsdos.sh # # hints file for BSD/OS (adapted from bsd386.sh) # Original by Neil Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue Oct 4 12:01:34 EDT 1994 # Updated by Tony Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat Aug 23 12:47:45 MDT 1997 # Added 3.1 with ELF dynamic libraries (NOT in 3.1 yet. # Estimated for 4.0) SYSV IPC tested Ok so I re-enabled. # # Updated to work in post-4.0 by Todd C. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Updated for threads by Timur I. Bakeyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # To override the compiler on the command line: # ./Configure -Dcc=gcc2 # # The BSD/OS distribution is built with: # ./Configure -des -Dbsdos_distribution=defined
