From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1278 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2014 21:30:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1264 invoked by uid 89); 10 Nov 2014 21:30:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:30:32 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id sAALUUTT011674 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:30:30 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id sAALUTMA015528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:30:29 -0500 Message-ID: <54612EA9.1090703@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:30:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl-5.18.2-1 References: <87a9bvsnse.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <8761loegk8.fsf_-_@Rainer.invalid> <87fvkq57do.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87y4y8uoe2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87k369lc8v.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <1408137347.1564.19.camel@YAAKOV04> <87vbpsewyw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <544FC737.9060202@cornell.edu> <20141029111701.GA11402@calimero.vinschen.de> <87oast8pfz.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <5457FD03.3050601@cornell.edu> <877fzbhr12.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <877fzbhr12.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On 11/4/2014 11:25 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> I think Reini is talking about the changes introduced by Yaakov and >> subsequently followed by others (including me). But as long as you're >> getting the credit anyway, are you willing to adopt perl? We seem to >> be at an impasse otherwise. > > The last time Reini talked about the 64bit version of Perl he mentioned > he was chasing a serious bug (I don't remember what it was and it may > already be moot). I can try to build Perl starting from his 32bit > packge, but I would really like to start from where Reini left off for > 64bit if that's possible. I probably can't test the result as > thouroughly as Reini would have done. I searched the archives, and I found the following two messages from Reini https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2014-03/msg00010.html https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00511.html in which he mentioned problems with sockets. He didn't specify how serious the problems were. Reini, can you give Achim whatever information he needs in order to continue from where you left off? Ken