From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: perl-5.14.4
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150205084913.GN2635@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iofh8l54.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On Feb 4 21:41, Achim Gratz wrote:
> As I said in another thread I intend to skip directly to version 5.22
> shortly after it becomes available in May (assuming the release schedule
> is still holds).
>
> While looking into some of the test fails on 5.18.4 I've moved back to
> 5.14.4 for comparison (the fail turned out to be a combination of new
> optimizations in gcc-4.9 and undefined behaviour in Perl code). The fix
> in this case was to add a compiler flag (-fwrapv) that disables those
> optimizations and I'm now back to having roughly the same test fails as
> the old 5.14.2 from Reini:
>
> Failed 9 tests out of 2048, 99.56% okay.
> ../cpan/Win32/t/GetShortPathName.t
> --> returns a long path name when called from mintty
> ../cpan/Win32/t/Names.t
> --> this old version of Win32 does not know about Windows 8.1
> ../cpan/Win32/t/Unicode.t
> --> ANSI path functions do not return the expected results
> ../dist/Net-Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t
> --> same as 5.14.2
> ../ext/XS-APItest/t/call_checker.t
> --> same as 5.14.2
> ../lib/File/stat.t
> --> works if test is not run as Administrator (but then other tests fail)
> op/filetest.t
> --> works if test is not run as Administrator (but then other tests fail)
> porting/exec-bit.t
> --> global.sym has exec bit set, but not registered as such
> porting/regen.t
> --> also something to do with global.sym
>
> I'll probably keep the Win32 and other bundled CPAN modules as released
> with 5.14 and provide the latest versions as unbundled perl-* packages
> so that Module::CoreList doesn't lie to the user.
>
> So, it looks like I'm ready to bring Perl on both 32bit and 64bit to the
> same (final 5.14.4) version plus I can already do the packaging changes
> planned for the 5.22 release (dissolution of perl_vendor and creation of
> perl_base as a minimal install variant) for both architectures. I hope
> that this would enable a much smoother transition when that version gets
> released since the dependencies of those packages relying on Perl should
> be fixable until then.
>
> If this sounds like a good idea to everybody else I'd remove the current
> test package for 5.18.4 on 32bit and replace it with another test
> package for 5.14.4, likely in about two weeks. Comments or suggestions?
Sounds perfect to me.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-04 20:41 perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-04 21:57 ` perl-5.14.4 David Stacey
2015-02-04 22:10 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-05 17:57 ` perl-5.14.4 Reini Urban
2015-02-05 19:16 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-05 8:49 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-02-05 16:13 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-05 17:53 ` perl-5.14.4 Reini Urban
2015-02-05 19:13 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-06 19:22 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-08 20:19 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-09 10:25 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-09 17:16 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-09 18:49 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-09 19:06 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-09 19:41 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-09 20:20 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-14 20:04 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-14 21:12 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-15 10:32 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-15 13:18 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-15 14:31 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-15 16:22 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-15 19:14 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-16 9:17 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-16 9:46 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-16 10:25 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-16 12:25 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-16 14:29 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-16 15:32 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-16 15:42 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-03-05 13:21 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-03-05 16:45 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-03-10 9:10 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-03-14 20:30 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-03-16 9:06 ` perl-5.14.4 Corinna Vinschen
2015-02-10 19:55 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
2015-02-11 20:01 ` perl-5.14.4 David Stacey
2015-02-13 18:36 ` perl-5.14.4 Achim Gratz
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