From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28604 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2008 07:50:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 7061 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jul 2008 22:28:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <486FF560.5090103@x-ray.at> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:50:00 -0000 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: perl-5.10.0-5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 perl has been updated to 5.10.0-5. Important Changes since the last perl-5.10.0-4: - fixed serious Win32CORE issue with 5.10.0-4. This was statically linked, but never initialized at run-time. - fixed failing .dll linkage in ExtUtils::LibUtils::Kid. Broke gtk2-perl - softlink all /usr/bin longver scripts to versionless links - added Term::ReadKey (lost with 5.10.0-4) - based on 5.10.x patchlevel 34065. This was easier than cherry picking the most important patches since the official 5.10 release. perl-5.10.0 cygwin notes: ------------------------- This release is binary incompatible with the old 5.8 releases, but compatible to all 5.10.x releases. That's why we named the main perl DLL /bin/cygperl5_10.dll and not cygperl5_10_0.dll. The requirements for the special perl link driver ld2 and perlld had been removed. Cygwin mount point information is now accessible, esp. text/binary detection. Some modules have been added to vendor_perl, but most of the old vendor modules moved to CORE. Included are Bundle::CPAN, CPAN::Reporter, XML::LibXML and several Test modules. Note: Installed modules (e.g. via CPAN) in site_perl have higher precedence than vendor_perl modules. So you can easily update these. See http://www.perl.org/ ChangeLog: http://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html Cygwin README: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlcygwin.html Vendor patches: * CYG11 Empty .bs files are not generated anymore * CYG12 no archlib in otherlibdirs * CYG14 Dynaloader * CYG15 static-Win32CORE * CYG18 File::Spec::case_tolerant performance fix Update recommendations from 5.8: ------------------------------- Since 5.10 is not installed in parallel to 5.8 (it is possible, but not with this package), all your old 5.8 modules will need to be reinstalled for 5.10. Your old 5.8 modules are not deleted, just not accessible to 5.10. Non-binary packages can be used by adding /usr/lib/perl5/site_lib/5.8 to your @INC, but the below procedure is recommended to get the latest version for each installed package. This will not harm most of your previous 5.8 modules in case you want to switch back to 5.8, just the /bin scripts might get overwritten. BEFORE INSTALLATION of 5.10 ! # get the list of installed 5.8 modules $ perl -MExtUtils::Installed \ -e'print join("\n", new ExtUtils::Installed->modules)' > module.list AFTER INSTALLATION of 5.10 ! # install all previous modules for 5.10 $ cpan `cat module.list` Detailed NEWS from README ------------------------- 5.10.0-5 - fixed serious Win32CORE issue with 5.10.0-4. This was statically linked, but never initialized at run-time. - fixed failing .dll linkage in ExtUtils::LibUtils::Kid. Broke gtk2-perl - softlink all /usr/bin longver binaries to versionless links - added Term::ReadKey (lost with 5.10.0-4) - based on 5.10.x patchlevel 34065 - added Net-DNS-0.63 for Test::Reporter - more modules upgrades: Compress-Bzip2-2.011, File-HomeDir-0.80, libwww-perl-5.813, Test-Reporter-1.4002, B-Generate-1.12_09 ======================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.