From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Charles S. Wilson" To: Dana Hudes Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: corrupt cygnus Perl ports Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: <37725933.3BA108@ece.gatech.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19990622021435.007daec0@bl-mail2.corpeast.baynetworks.com> <3.0.5.32.19990622100919.0081c220@bl-mail2.corpeast.baynetworks.com> <3.0.5.32.19990623140050.0081b260@bl-mail2.corpeast.baynetworks.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00575.html Message-ID: <19990630221000.Q32q34_KNDIg9QSZ8k8vZx8hEgXQCKjb6SJ3S4zZWpk@z> Dana - (copied to the cygwin list, because the info is probably of general interest. Hope that's okay) > Managed to get a valid file and set it up. Good. It wasn't supposed to be that hard... :-) > Running perl -MCPAN -eshell > is not going smooth. IO::Socket is having trouble, libnet is hanging in the > middle. Okay, I think I know what this is. If you check the documentation (the README is available from http://cygutils.netpedia.net/perl/README.cygwin32-v1.4.1 ) and search for io_sock.t, you'll find that there was a problem with it. We hacked the test so that the build would go smoothly, since without this hack, the make test / perl harness *hangs* rather than reporting a failure. Unfortunately, this means that there is no warning to the unsuspecting user that io_sock doesn't work properly, unless you read the documentation pretty thoroughly. The problem is that "fork"s don't work with dlls in cygwin. Yet. See the recent thread "B20.1: Fork bug (Win95)" and an older thread "fork + dlls". Hopefully this bug, which is a cygwin problem and not a perl problem, will be fixed in B21. > ReadLine gets an uninitialized value error, so does Ext_MM > (makemaker?) > I don't understand this. But that's just because I'm (a) not a programmer, and (b) a verifiable, card-carrying Perl newbie. How I ended up "maintaining" the cygwin port of perl, I'll never figure out. I guess it's just because I'm good at collecting other people's work and packaging it up nicely. :-) --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com