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Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8


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.



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