* Re: corrupt cygnus Perl ports [not found] ` <3.0.5.32.19990623140050.0081b260@bl-mail2.corpeast.baynetworks.com> @ 1999-06-24 9:12 ` Charles S. Wilson 1999-06-30 22:10 ` Charles S. Wilson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Charles S. Wilson @ 1999-06-24 9:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dana Hudes; +Cc: cygwin 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: corrupt cygnus Perl ports 1999-06-24 9:12 ` corrupt cygnus Perl ports Charles S. Wilson @ 1999-06-30 22:10 ` Charles S. Wilson 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Charles S. Wilson @ 1999-06-30 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dana Hudes; +Cc: cygwin 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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