From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Barre To: Charles Wilson Cc: Allan Peda , Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Compiling Perl under b20.1 Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 02:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.1.19990306090805.018cd620@mail.club-internet.fr> In-reply-to: < 36E048F5.9B384A50@ece.gatech.edu > References: <4.1.19990305163422.01952c40@mail.club-internet.fr> <36E048F5.9B384A50@ece.gatech.edu> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00144.html At 16:13 05/03/99 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >I've taken Sebastien Barre's suggestions and Steven Morlock's instructions and >successfully compiled perl5.005_02 under Cygwin B20.1 and WinNT4sp4. I took >all their suggestions and created a patch file and collected the instructions >together in the attached package (6kB). Very good, thanks !. I tested it, and it works. After applying the patch, one might have to change his paths in hints/cygwin32.sh, otherwise it's perfect. >Please comment on both the collected build instructions and the binary >distribution. *) Steven Morlock published TWO articles (a correction to the first one), but you did not include the second one (which is related to binary mode). Re: HOWTO: Builiding Perl under Win95/98 using Cygwin32 Author: Steven Morlock Date: 1998/12/22 Forum: comp.lang.perl.misc It's not that important because you included the modification in your patch : + #if defined(__CYGWIN32__) + /* USEMYBINMODE ... *) I also forgot to mention this article : To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: configure and cpp problem (Was: bug: missing include files in B20.1) From: Teun Burgers Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:52:09 +0100 But I seems to me the one DO NOT need it (but I kept it, just in case). You might have a look anyway. *) Furthermore, I'd just add that I had some problems while building perl if source files were extracted in a binary mounted partition. BUT I also read some testimony regarding the contrary (i.e. you need to mount it as binary) ! Therefore, It's just a hint, but if you experience some problems (sadly, I forgot to save the error messages), try different mount mode. *) make test Here is the result after applying your modifications : > make test Failed 7 test scripts out of 186, 91.40% okay. >cd t >perl harness Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- io/fs.t 26 4 15.38% 5, 7, 9-10 lib/anydbm.t 2 512 12 9 75.00% 2, 5-12 lib/findbin.t 1 1 100.00% 1 lib/sdbm.t 2 512 18 15 83.33% 2, 5-18 op/magic.t 35 1 2.86% 23 op/stat.t 58 6 10.34% 2, 9, 19-20, 26, 35 op/taint.t 149 3 2.01% 1, 3, 31 9 tests skipped, plus 20 subtests skipped. Failed 7/186 test scripts, 96.24% okay. 39/6193 subtests failed, 99.37% okay. (anydbm and sdbm might be different if you mounted your partition as binary). Some of them just fail because they should NOT be executed in a win32 implementation. They should be skipped. Sadly, the test behind this does NOT handle cygwin32 environment, just plain MS32 by comparing OS name to MSWin32 ($^O eq 'MSWin32'). Let's add a test for cygwin ($^O =~ /cygwin/). Here is a couple of tests I think that might be patched (I could not do anything for magic.t, as well as stat.t, which is a known problem) : diff -urN perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t.orig perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t --- perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t.orig Sat Mar 06 12:18:26 1999 +++ perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t Sat Mar 06 12:18:31 1999 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ $Is_Dosish = ($^O eq 'dos' or $^O eq 'os2'); # avoid win32 (for now) -do { print "1..0\n"; exit(0); } if $^O eq 'MSWin32'; +do { print "1..0\n"; exit(0); } if $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O =~ /cygwin/; print "1..26\n"; diff -urN perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t.orig perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t --- perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t.orig Sat Mar 06 12:22:30 1999 +++ perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t Sat Mar 06 12:23:04 1999 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if (! -e $Dfile) { ($Dfile) = ; } -if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos') { +if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos' || $^O =~ /cygwin/) { print "ok 2 # Skipped: different file permission semantics\n"; } else { diff -urN perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t.orig perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t --- perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t.orig Sat Mar 06 12:27:04 1999 +++ perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t Sat Mar 06 12:27:10 1999 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if (! -e $Dfile) { ($Dfile) = ; } -if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos') { +if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos' || $^O =~ /cygwin/) { print "ok 2 # Skipped: different file permission semantics\n"; } else { (these patch might be just added to your perl.patch and used with patch -p1). > make test Failed 6 test scripts out of 186, 91.40% okay. > cd t > perl harness Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lib/anydbm.t 2 512 12 8 66.67% 5-12 lib/findbin.t 1 1 100.00% 1 lib/sdbm.t 2 512 18 14 77.78% 5-18 op/magic.t 35 1 2.86% 23 op/stat.t 58 6 10.34% 2, 9, 19-20, 26, 35 op/taint.t 149 3 2.01% 1, 3, 31 10 tests skipped, plus 22 subtests skipped. Failed 6/186 test scripts, 96.77% okay. 33/6167 subtests failed, 99.46% okay. Which is slightly better :) Hope it helps ______________________________________________________________ Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Barre To: Charles Wilson Cc: Allan Peda , Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Compiling Perl under b20.1 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4.1.19990306090805.018cd620@mail.club-internet.fr> References: <4.1.19990305163422.01952c40@mail.club-internet.fr> <36E048F5.9B384A50@ece.gatech.edu> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00144.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.cY4fLKZfI_V15_Q9Iq_V0LqDeWXveK4F9BBVck2h6D4@z> At 16:13 05/03/99 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >I've taken Sebastien Barre's suggestions and Steven Morlock's instructions and >successfully compiled perl5.005_02 under Cygwin B20.1 and WinNT4sp4. I took >all their suggestions and created a patch file and collected the instructions >together in the attached package (6kB). Very good, thanks !. I tested it, and it works. After applying the patch, one might have to change his paths in hints/cygwin32.sh, otherwise it's perfect. >Please comment on both the collected build instructions and the binary >distribution. *) Steven Morlock published TWO articles (a correction to the first one), but you did not include the second one (which is related to binary mode). Re: HOWTO: Builiding Perl under Win95/98 using Cygwin32 Author: Steven Morlock Date: 1998/12/22 Forum: comp.lang.perl.misc It's not that important because you included the modification in your patch : + #if defined(__CYGWIN32__) + /* USEMYBINMODE ... *) I also forgot to mention this article : To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: configure and cpp problem (Was: bug: missing include files in B20.1) From: Teun Burgers Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:52:09 +0100 But I seems to me the one DO NOT need it (but I kept it, just in case). You might have a look anyway. *) Furthermore, I'd just add that I had some problems while building perl if source files were extracted in a binary mounted partition. BUT I also read some testimony regarding the contrary (i.e. you need to mount it as binary) ! Therefore, It's just a hint, but if you experience some problems (sadly, I forgot to save the error messages), try different mount mode. *) make test Here is the result after applying your modifications : > make test Failed 7 test scripts out of 186, 91.40% okay. >cd t >perl harness Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- io/fs.t 26 4 15.38% 5, 7, 9-10 lib/anydbm.t 2 512 12 9 75.00% 2, 5-12 lib/findbin.t 1 1 100.00% 1 lib/sdbm.t 2 512 18 15 83.33% 2, 5-18 op/magic.t 35 1 2.86% 23 op/stat.t 58 6 10.34% 2, 9, 19-20, 26, 35 op/taint.t 149 3 2.01% 1, 3, 31 9 tests skipped, plus 20 subtests skipped. Failed 7/186 test scripts, 96.24% okay. 39/6193 subtests failed, 99.37% okay. (anydbm and sdbm might be different if you mounted your partition as binary). Some of them just fail because they should NOT be executed in a win32 implementation. They should be skipped. Sadly, the test behind this does NOT handle cygwin32 environment, just plain MS32 by comparing OS name to MSWin32 ($^O eq 'MSWin32'). Let's add a test for cygwin ($^O =~ /cygwin/). Here is a couple of tests I think that might be patched (I could not do anything for magic.t, as well as stat.t, which is a known problem) : diff -urN perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t.orig perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t --- perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t.orig Sat Mar 06 12:18:26 1999 +++ perl5.005_02/t/io/fs.t Sat Mar 06 12:18:31 1999 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ $Is_Dosish = ($^O eq 'dos' or $^O eq 'os2'); # avoid win32 (for now) -do { print "1..0\n"; exit(0); } if $^O eq 'MSWin32'; +do { print "1..0\n"; exit(0); } if $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O =~ /cygwin/; print "1..26\n"; diff -urN perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t.orig perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t --- perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t.orig Sat Mar 06 12:22:30 1999 +++ perl5.005_02/t/lib/anydbm.t Sat Mar 06 12:23:04 1999 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if (! -e $Dfile) { ($Dfile) = ; } -if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos') { +if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos' || $^O =~ /cygwin/) { print "ok 2 # Skipped: different file permission semantics\n"; } else { diff -urN perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t.orig perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t --- perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t.orig Sat Mar 06 12:27:04 1999 +++ perl5.005_02/t/lib/sdbm.t Sat Mar 06 12:27:10 1999 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if (! -e $Dfile) { ($Dfile) = ; } -if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos') { +if ($^O eq 'amigaos' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'dos' || $^O =~ /cygwin/) { print "ok 2 # Skipped: different file permission semantics\n"; } else { (these patch might be just added to your perl.patch and used with patch -p1). > make test Failed 6 test scripts out of 186, 91.40% okay. > cd t > perl harness Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lib/anydbm.t 2 512 12 8 66.67% 5-12 lib/findbin.t 1 1 100.00% 1 lib/sdbm.t 2 512 18 14 77.78% 5-18 op/magic.t 35 1 2.86% 23 op/stat.t 58 6 10.34% 2, 9, 19-20, 26, 35 op/taint.t 149 3 2.01% 1, 3, 31 10 tests skipped, plus 22 subtests skipped. Failed 6/186 test scripts, 96.77% okay. 33/6167 subtests failed, 99.46% okay. Which is slightly better :) Hope it helps ______________________________________________________________ Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com