From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 539 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2007 05:42:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 526 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jun 2007 05:42:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from samwise.efn.org (HELO samwise.efn.org) (12.33.21.33) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:42:48 +0000 Received: from webmail.efn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by samwise.efn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D8A17001E for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 70.56.81.169 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sthoenna) by webmail.efn.org with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58089.70.56.81.169.1182318166.squirrel@webmail.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <46788FF2.5090907@x-ray.at> References: <46788FF2.5090907@x-ray.at> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:42:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8 From: "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 On Tue, June 19, 2007 7:24 pm, Reini Urban wrote: > I want to it take over from Gerrit. Thank you so much. If it were up to me, you'd get three gold stars. > Please try to test it. It's a really weird build system. > But I'm quite happy with this 5.8.8 > > > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-1.tar.bz2 > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-1-src.tar.b > z2 > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl_manpages/perl_ma > npages-5.8.8-1.tar.bz2 setup.hint's attached (unchanged) > > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of > Failed > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/ipcsysv.t 1 256 16 32 200.00% 1-16 > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/msg.t 0 12 ?? ?? % ?? > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/sem.t 0 12 ?? ?? % ?? > ../lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t 2 1 50.00% 2 > op/magic.t 58 1 1.72% 27 > op/taint.t 0 12 238 178 74.79% 150-238 > 25 tests and 262 subtests skipped. > Failed 6/996 test scripts, 99.40% okay. 107/117806 subtests failed, > 99.91% okay. I think all of those but the Net::Ping are due to cygserver not running (or server not in CYGWIN). And Net::Ping tends to have obscure problems that vary from system to system. > I also have a test version for perl-5.9.4 ready, but I'll wait a bit to > get some patches in, until Rafaël announces the 5.9.5 release. -- There shouldn't be major changes between now and 5.9.5, so it wouldn't hurt at all to grab http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current-snap/perl-current-latest.tar.bz2 for a test version.