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Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8
- From: "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:42:46 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8
- References: <46788FF2.5090907@x-ray.at>
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.