The P5P report

2002-07-15 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
I should have announced that before... For those of you that haven't noticed already : I'm writing a weekly summary of what's happening there, that gets published on use.perl on mondays. Here's the second one : http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/15/0732235

Re: RC3 on NCR SVR4: Two tests failing

2002-07-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Don't it always? Here's the revelant paragraph: > > > > "With OS Release 3.02 and later, these functions are provided in the -lc89 > > library. For earlier releases, use -lucb from the compat package." > > > > So my mission is to get -lc89 see

proposed changes to perlfaq4 (low priority)

2002-07-15 Thread dLux
Hello, I would like to propose a change to the perlfaq4 pod page. I think mentioning the OO date modules would be good in there in a question. From a business-developer's viewpoint (Java, C#) it is an important question if perl has OO date "type" or not. I think our supply is quite good (Class::

Re: @17440 ok on AIX 4.3.3 / gcc 2.9

2002-07-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed 10 Jul 2002 10:55, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI : > I've successfully compiled/tested the latest snapshot on AIX > 4.3.3 with the IBM-supplied gcc (2.9-aix51-020209) (and with > the default Configure options.) Is it a 64bit machine? Could you test -Duse64bitall?

Re: 5.8.0 announcement draft

2002-07-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:54:53PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > 2. I would also move the "Incompatibilities" section to the end of the > > announcement. Most users of Perl are not interested in these advanced > > features themselves. They download modules with advanced features and

[ID 20020715.002] Not OK: perl v5.8.0 on MSWin32-x86-multi-thread 4.0 (UNINSTALLED)

2002-07-15 Thread Andreas Fehr
This is a build failure report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0. - [Please enter your report here] WinNT4, SP6a, MingW 1.1 Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail F