Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-26 Thread Lincoln Stein
Is this a Perl problem, a make problem, or a RedHat problem? Lincoln On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:40 pm, Thomas Good wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: > > Oddly enough, installing Perl 5.8 from source on a virgin RedHat 8.0 > > system fails with this mysterious error: > > > >

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-26 Thread Lincoln Stein
-Original Message- > > From: Thomas Good [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:53 AM > > To: Tim Bunce > > Cc: Jarkko Hietaniemi; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Using perl 5.8.0? > > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 20

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-25 Thread M. Addlework
--- Thomas Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: > > > Oddly enough, installing Perl 5.8 from source on a virgin RedHat > 8.0 system > > fails with this mysterious error: > > > > make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by > `miniperlmain.o'. > > S

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: > Is this a Perl problem, a make problem, or a RedHat problem? > > Lincoln Lincoln, I thought it was a perl problem as when I googled for the err string I got back several examples of how to workaround it. But then I built the src on slackware and I did

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: > Oddly enough, installing Perl 5.8 from source on a virgin RedHat 8.0 system > fails with this mysterious error: > > make: *** No rule to make target `', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. > Stop. > > Anyone seen this? Lincoln, yes, I had to use se

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Cosby, Christopher wrote: > $platforms{'RedHat8.0'}->sucks = 1, as it installs in (I speak for the .deb) That's an interesting variable assignment. I suspect you could omit the version string. But you already know this, as you run Debian. Just kidding!! I am not enamoured

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-18 Thread Cosby, Christopher
TECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:53 AM > To: Tim Bunce > Cc: Jarkko Hietaniemi; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Using perl 5.8.0? > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > Thomas, did you get round to doing this? > > &g

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > Thomas, did you get round to doing this? > > Tim. Hi Tim, I have worked on it a bit... I attempted to reproduce the problem here at work on a test machine running slackware 8.0. I installed perl 5.8.0 and built. No errors. Then I recalled that Redhat (

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-18 Thread Tim Bunce
Thomas, did you get round to doing this? Tim. On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:12AM +, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > > > > While I was using 5.8 large data transfers via DBI failed consistently. >

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-03 Thread Jay Hannah
> From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyone using perl 5.8.0? After a lot of upgrades (seg fault, DBI connect hangs), we seem to have one old RedHat server happy w/ 5.8.0. Linux version 2.4.7-10 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.9 6-98)) #1 Thu

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-03 Thread Charles Jardine
Lincoln Stein wrote: My test case is part of a big script that requires BioPerl. What I'll do is to pull it out into a self-contained script. Frankly I don't think that this has anything to do with DBI, but rather something fundamental that changed with Perl's IO handling. A whole bunch of sy

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-27 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2003-02-27 06:17:53 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > >As a workaround, you can unset the EDITOR variable. > > Intriguing -- and effective. I wonder how that happens! What's your > value for $EDITOR - mine is usually vi or vim. Mine, too. hp -- _ |

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-27 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2003-02-25 21:34:52 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Generally speaking, I've been impressed with 5.8.0 on both Solaris 7 (UltraSparc) and also on MacOS X (10.2.3 at the moment). On MacOS X, there's a peculiarity in the way CPAN and CPANPLUS manage to put the first char

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread shildreth
> I would like to take this moment to thank Lincoln Stein for his wonderful > book "Network Programming with Perl"; it's been a wonderful resource for me ..has been a great resource for me as well. > on this current project. If yo

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Susan Cassidy
I am using perl 5.8.0 and DBD-Oracle-1.12 with DBI-1.32, on Solaris 5.8. I have trouble inserting data into CLOBs if the data is over 32K, and the DBD does not understand Oracle type XMLDATA at all. I posted a question about this earlier, but no one appeared to know anything. Doesn't se

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Tim Bunce
Ah, mentioning PerlIO and DBD::Oracle points the finger at the fact that DBD::Oracle hasn't been updated to use PerlIO for warnings/trace (at least not in the release on CPAN). That may be a factor. If DBD::Oracle needs to 'say' anything (which is very rare in normal operation) it'll be passing a

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Neibarger Scott H
I'm afraid I can't offer any feedback that would be useful, other than the fact that Lincoln is most likely correct that this problem is manifested due to changes in PerlIO. I have several daemons running on Tivoli TMR servers, many of which use DBI and DBD::Oracle; one of which is experiencing so

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2003-02-25 21:34:52 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Generally speaking, I've been impressed with 5.8.0 on both Solaris 7 > (UltraSparc) and also on MacOS X (10.2.3 at the moment). On MacOS X, > there's a peculiarity in the way CPAN and CPANPLUS manage to put the > first character of output

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > > While I was using 5.8 large data transfers via DBI failed consistently. > > > I have compared notes with others (including Lincoln Stein) and this > > > problem is easily reproduced. In fa

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:05:59PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote: > My test case is part of a big script that requires BioPerl. What I'll do is > to pull it out into a self-contained script. > > Frankly I don't think that this has anything to do with DBI, but rather > something fundamental that ch

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Tim Bunce wrote: Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's is wider. Please reply to Jarkko (CC'd) and then also CC me if your reply includes any feedback related to the DBI

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Lincoln Stein
te: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > Anyone using perl 5.8.0? > > > > > > Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. > > > Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's > > > is wider. &

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > While I was using 5.8 large data transfers via DBI failed consistently. > > I have compared notes with others (including Lincoln Stein) and this > > problem is easily reproduced. In fact, I can't stop reproducing it. ;-) > > > A self-contained test case w

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:13:47AM -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > Anyone using perl 5.8.0? > > > > Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. > > Obviously my main interest is with DBI and dri

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:26:03PM -, Steve Haslam wrote: > Tim, Jarkko; my main problem with using perl 5.8 for our > DBD::Oracle/DBD::Sybase apps is the inability to use signals to "time out" > an operation. We have constructs like: > > eval { > alarm(60); > local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { $sth->

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Mardi 25 Février 2003 13:50, Tim Bunce a écrit : > > Anyone using perl 5.8.0? > Yes. > > > Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. > > Obviously my main interest is with D

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: > Anyone using perl 5.8.0? > > Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. > Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's > is wider. > > Please reply to Jarkko (CC'd) and then also CC

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Steve Haslam
I could have the SIGALRM handler just do "kill(SIGINT,$$)", that would probably be sufficient... Hope that helps. I've been using Perl 5.8.0 with the Sybase, Oracle and Pg drivers and this is the only really serious problem I have. In fact, using 5.8.0 instead of 5.6.1 did fix a

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Mardi 25 Février 2003 13:50, Tim Bunce a écrit : > Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Yes. > Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. > Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's > is wider. > > Please reply to Jarkko (CC'd) and t

Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's is wider. Please reply to Jarkko (CC'd) and then also CC me if your reply includes any feedback related to the DBI and/or the

Building DBD-Chart under cygwin gives errors, using perl 5.8.0

2002-11-19 Thread Mark Buckle
Has anyone built this, I'm getting this error when trying to build the pre-requisite package gdtextUtil-0.80 :- bash-2.05b$ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll to same address as parent(0xB9) !