Re: perl with cygwin 1.5, need help)

2003-08-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jarkko, Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 um 23:12 schriebst du: This is resolved, there is still a problem with cygwin-1.5.1, when you link an executable with -lc you get other symbols than linking without -lc on the link line. Fortunately Jason (the Python maintainer) figured this

Perl 5 Bug Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Spier
Perl5 Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt2/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Aug 11 13:00:02 2003 GMT --- * Total Issues * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker question: list of install files

2003-08-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:42:59AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: Do ExtUtils::MakeMaker generated Makefiles have a target that lists all files that would be installed without installing them? As a slightly paranoid user, I'd like to see what gets installed before doing so... AFAIK, no. You

maint @ 20558

2003-08-14 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/jhi/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or rsync -avz --delete ftp.linux.activestate.com::perl-5.8.x perl-5.8.x) Nothing major, mainly polishing the corners on various platforms. I'd like to know how 20537 worked on Cygwin 1.5 (or how this

RE: Embedded memory problem [perl #22121]

2003-08-14 Thread Haili Ma
Keep creating new perl interpreter and freeing it always causes me leaking. The way I used is that creating perl interpreter once, save it and use it next time. -Original Message- From: Radu Greab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: This Week on perl5-porters (4-10 August 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
yOn Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: This Week on perl5-porters (4-10 August 2003) The bulk of the discussion, this week, was about platform-specific adjustments for the upcoming 5.8.1, and other testing feedback. However, don't miss the other interesting topics : v-strings

Smoke [5.8.1] 20617 PASS-so-far solaris 2.9 (sun4/1 cpu)

2003-08-14 Thread Alan . Burlison
Automated smoke report for 5.8.1 patch 20617 on solaris - 2.9 (sun4/1 cpu) (fubar) using /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc version workshop Report by Test::Smoke v1.18.02 (perl 5.6.1) [19 hours 19 minutes] O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom X = test(s) failed under TEST but not under

Re: [PATCH] perlreref.pod tweaks

2003-08-14 Thread Iain Truskett
* SADAHIRO Tomoyuki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13 Aug 2003 00:36]: [...] May same as ... phrases with \ dDwWsS be removed? I.e. something like following simply: \d A digit \D A nondigit \w A word character \W A non-word character \s A whitespace character

Re: [PATCH 5.8.1-RC4] New Pragma Proposal: autobox

2003-08-14 Thread chocolateboy
Michael G Schwern wrote: Doesn't work here. Perhaps because I patched against bleadperl instead of RC4? My newbie bad. I'll concoct a bleadperl patch when I have a mo. For now, RC4 please. Either way, any reason autobox can't set up SCALAR, HASH, et al for the user so the former DWIMs?

Re: [PATCH 5.8.1-RC4] New Pragma Proposal: autobox

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Burlison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The impact looks pretty minimal: the patch needs to do a little bit of extra work in the optree cleanup/optimisation phase, and on method lookup all the real magic occurs wrapped in a test: if ((PL_op-op_flags OPf_SPECIAL) ...) .. which test will succeed only if the

Re: [PATCH 5.8.1-RC4] New Pragma Proposal: autobox

2003-08-14 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
chocolate boy wrote: (PS. Could autobox.pm be implemented without a core patch ? by using optimizer.pm and B::Generate for example.) Not using optimize.pm alone. Its peep() hook occurs too late i.e. outside the scope in which $^H and %^H are meaningful. On the big TODO list is making

Re: This Week on perl5-porters (4-10 August 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ask Bjoern Hansen) writes: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: This Week on perl5-porters (4-10 August 2003) [...] Er, I should obviously not try moderating mail at 7am. Sorry about that. -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();

perlbrowse improvement

2003-08-14 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
I'm pleased to announce that the blamelog feature of the perl repository browser now includes hyperlinks to the actual patches where lines were first introduced.

Re: replacing the worker PerlIO layer with another one

2003-08-14 Thread Stas Bekman
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a question that is not documented in the perlio pods. I need to take STDOUT and STDIN filehandles and replace the worker PerlIO layer (the one that does the actual read/write) with my own layer. I suppose I could store away

Re: Calling Perl_pop_return from XS on Win32

2003-08-14 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 16:21 +0100 8/14/03, Robin Houston wrote: Sorry to bother you all with this, but I can't think who else to ask. I've had a report that one of my modules (Want-0.06) doesn't build on Windows XP. The problem appears to be that the linker doesn't know about the Perl_pop_return function. Here's the

RE: storable module ver 2.07

2003-08-14 Thread Robin Barker
No, not necessarily, the README file is meant to tell you something about the module/distribution, so you can decide if you want to look further. (Where does it call itself a man-page?) A little example of how to use the module is included in the synopsis section of the man page, which can be

Re: [PATCH] perlreref.pod tweaks

2003-08-14 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Nicholas Clark wrote: Feature, IIRC. Although I can't find the message on p5p about it. IIRC someone observed that they couldn't name identifiers in Ethiopian, because there was an Ethiopian character similar in function to _ which wasn't in \w IIRC this was on the perl-unicode list, and the

Re: [PATCH] perlfaq8.pod and MakeMaker's PREFIX=

2003-08-14 Thread Alan J. Flavell
On Wed, Aug 6, Steve Grazzini wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:27:13PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: The answer for How do I keep my own module/library directory? seems to be out-of-date: When you build modules, use the PREFIX option when generating Makefiles: So I've

Re: maint @ 20617 (on VMS)

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Berry
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 01:46PM, John Peacock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since there have been reports of 100% clean, I thought it important to highlight some possible marginal cases. Good point. How can I display all of the OpenVMS versions, so I know what may need patching? I