perl-5.6.0

News

2001-Jan-04: obsoleted by perl-5.6.1-1 in the official net-release. Get it at one of these sites, in the 'contrib/perl' directory. Note that as of Jan 4, 2001, it is not yet official; it is a test release. You must specifically choose it in the setup.exe program in order to install.

The perl in the official net release is maintained by Eric Fifer, who has long been the driving force getting perl to work with cygwin. I've only been acting as a packager/tester for the last year and a half; Eric's done the real work. So, you can be confident that, although this cygutils release of perl is longer supported, perl-on-cygwin is in good hands. Use the cygwin mailing list for questions and comments, and kudos to Eric for a great job.
Also, if you have installed the official perl and want to remove the cygutils version from your system (as I have), then use the RemoveObsoletePackages tool here and the perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1-list.tar.bz2 helper file on that page (only 16k download).

2000-Apr-11: perl-5.6.0 available.

2000-Apr-11: Several modules are available here

Notes:

Binary kit compiled with:
- cygipc-1.05
- gdbm-1.8.0-1
- db-2.7.7
- gcc-2.95.2
- make 3.78.1
- cygwin-inst-20000325
- cygwin1.dll-20000328
- CYGWIN=binmode tty ntea nontsec
- sh == bash 2.03.0(2)
- built and installed as a normal user (not Administrator)
I saved a lot of time on the build by copying this Policy file into the build directory, and executing "sh Configure -d | tee log.txt"
Binary and modules are built unstripped.
The source itself and the precompiled binary both rely on fixes and features in the newer cygwin kernels. You can't build or use perl-5.6.0 with stock B20.1 (easily). Your best bet, if you're using CygwinB20, is to install perl5.005_62 from the B20 branch.
Eric Fifer reported zero regression test errors when he built perl-5.6.0
```
  All tests successful, 4 tests and 100 subtests skipped.
  Files=236, Tests=11933, 178 wallclock secs (83.27 cusr + 53.55 csys = 136.82 CPU)
```
However, he reported the following caveats:
- Some new tests in op/taint.t result in some shm* warnings (but no failed tests). Looks like more cygipc bugs ...
- Eric sees some flakiness during Configure -- STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION from sh.exe, but not too bad. This is probably snapshot flakiness ...
- I (C. Wilson) had reported intermittent failures of the lib/io_sock.t test. Eric tried to track that down, but didn't have much luck, although he believes that they still seem to be there, while not always causing the test to fail. In Eric's tests, the lib/io_sock.t fails if stdout goes to the tty (with an "Invalid argument" to bind). But, when he built cygwin1.dll himself, lib/io_sock.t is okay :-( Eric's guess is that it is some subtle problem with Cygwin (missing __stdcall or maybe gcc) ...
- Also, since things have been going reasonably well Eric started compiling with -O2, which has been okay with perl itself, but he has been having some subtle problems in other code. He finds that -g still works better ...

Download:

perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1-patch.tar.gz
- 52335 bytes
- e300c33f3b87acfd63e6cca034b19a83 *perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1-patch.tar.gz
- perl-5.6.0 builds out-of-box. This package contains build-logs, my build recipe, etc.
perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1.README
- 2076 bytes
- 5f649ab95a94f66435f9119d42158dd7 *perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1.README
- My build recipe
perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1.tar.bz2
- 6695513 bytes
- fbbab3154c6743309506b53b9244f685 *perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1.tar.bz2
- the binary kit
perl-5.6.0.tar.gz
- 5443601 bytes
- b2940e2cc6312bcfa52355b684e70b9d *perl-5.6.0.tar.gz
- pristine source

Install the binary package

cd to /
unpack the binary distribution. It will install itself into /usr/local/lib/perl5, usr/local/man, and /usr/local/bin.
you're done.

Build from source

unpack the original source distribution (here or from cpan.org) in /usr/local/src
unpack the patchkit somewhere else
cd /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.0
NT only: chmod -R +w *
read perl-5.6.0/README.cygwin32

The patchkit perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1-patch.tar.bz2 contains:

README
perl-5.6.0-cygwin1.1.README	a more detailed 'build recipe'
log-conf.txt	transcript of my configure session
log-make.txt	transcript of my make session
log-test.txt	transcript of 'make test'
log-harness.txt	transcript of './perl harness'
log-inst.txt	transcript of 'make install'
log-insthtml.txt	transcript of 'make install.html'

Test results:

I cheated a little bit. I copied cygwin1.dll into the <PERL-SRC>/t directory to avoid the op/taint errors. I do not recommend this for general installations.

Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lib/io_sock.t    22  5632    14    3  21.43%  12-14
op/grent.t                    1    1 100.00%  1
4 tests and 98 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/236 test scripts, 99.15% okay. 4/11933 subtests failed, 99.97% okay.

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Last modified: Thu Jan 04 01:32:57 Eastern Standard Time 2001