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  • 10/4. I would rather want to see 5.8.0-RC1 as soooooooooooooooooooooooooon as possible than argue over what should be installed and what should not on what platforms. Let the users judge and to do so ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Apr 9, 2002 at 10:39 pm
    Apr 14, 2002 at 9:30 pm
  • I'm getting one failure on lib/sort.t when compiled with -Duseithreads on Solaris 8. It's not obvious to me what's wrong. Any suggestions? not ok 58 - Instability ok # Failed test (../lib/sort.t at ...
    Andy DoughertyAndy Dougherty
    Apr 3, 2002 at 9:25 pm
    May 15, 2002 at 6:44 pm
  • Mark, and FreeBSD committers, I am deeply disappointed by the recent move to drop some of the files (CGI.pm, et al.) in perl distribution /usr/src/contrib/perl5. By saving a few hundred kilobytes, ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Apr 30, 2002 at 3:34 pm
    May 2, 2002 at 6:09 am
  • 1. Encode causes AIX 4.2 't's, see below Automated smoke report for patch 16109 cc gcc O = OK | 3.0.4-64 64-bit +GNUld F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom | HP-UX 10.20 A.10.32.30 3.0.4 ? = ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Apr 24, 2002 at 11:45 am
    Apr 26, 2002 at 6:37 pm
  • I feel that negative key length is an elegant hack. But a hack none the less. but with bogus data, and no warning. Which I would argue is worse. I had a different plan. Which will cope with both ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Apr 10, 2002 at 9:06 pm
    Apr 19, 2002 at 7:52 pm
  • If I try to bless a restricted hash, I get: Modification of a read-only value attempted at ext/Storable/t/restrict.t line 79. I guess that this is a side effect of the implementation, but is it a ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Apr 10, 2002 at 7:27 pm
    Apr 15, 2002 at 1:55 pm
  • If someone with appropiate lintel box could try valgrind ( http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ ) on bleadperl over the weekend, that would be nice. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 26, 2002 at 2:17 pm
    Apr 30, 2002 at 2:38 pm
  • This is a bug report for perl from mjd@plover.com, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.6.1. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...
    MjdMjd
    Apr 16, 2002 at 1:17 pm
    Apr 18, 2002 at 8:02 pm
  • XML::SAX seems to have the proper selection of tests that reveal bleadperl bugs. It should become mandatory to test bleadperl with it. Since about 16097 we get: t/00basic........ok ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Apr 24, 2002 at 2:41 am
    Apr 27, 2002 at 5:23 pm
  • lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.............Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ../../lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm line 26. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Apr 10, 2002 at 9:40 am
    Apr 11, 2002 at 4:26 pm
  • Since we still have so many unfinished things, there will be no snapshot today (I would have liked to have the MakeMaker changes in today, but that was not to be), and therefore no RC1 Monday, ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 5, 2002 at 7:20 pm
    Apr 11, 2002 at 3:18 am
  • The attached patch (at ~14K) implements Perl 6's new C<// , C<//= , and C<err ops for Perl 5. It includes tests, a patch to perlop, and a patch to B::Deparse. It also modifies several areas of Perl, ...
    Brent DaxBrent Dax
    Apr 22, 2002 at 6:01 am
    Apr 26, 2002 at 10:32 pm
  • -DDEBUGGING -Duseperlio -Duse64bitint Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Apr 25, 2002 at 4:30 pm
    Apr 27, 2002 at 4:40 pm
  • Abigail seems to need perlio Automated smoke report for patch 15952 cc gcc O = OK | 3.0.4-64 64-bit +GNUld F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom | HP-UX 10.20 A.10.32.30 3.0.4 ? = still ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Apr 17, 2002 at 2:23 pm
    Apr 19, 2002 at 5:50 am
  • As part of a package of NetBSD-specific patches, Johnny Lam offered the following thoughtful patch This is indeed a real problem, and the only other easy solution I see is for the package distributor ...
    Andy DoughertyAndy Dougherty
    Apr 29, 2002 at 7:41 pm
    Feb 27, 2009 at 6:20 pm
  • (now without Re: ...) http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15662.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15662.tbz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15662.tgz ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 1, 2002 at 6:26 pm
    Apr 6, 2002 at 5:15 pm
  • This is a not entirely portable revision of a completely unportable method of determining whether enc2xs is being run during a core build, but it does allow the build to proceed on VMS. Can't the ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    Apr 1, 2002 at 8:38 pm
    Apr 5, 2002 at 8:38 pm
  • http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15772.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15772.tbz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15772.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15772.tbz ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 6, 2002 at 8:18 pm
    Apr 8, 2002 at 2:00 pm
  • Can I get warnings + fallbacks yet? Can we have a bit to enable warns on undef please ;-) There are casting issues with perlqq etc. using (say) UVxf but only passsing a U8 (e.g. s[slen]) and not a UV ...
    Nick Ing-SimmonsNick Ing-Simmons
    Apr 30, 2002 at 5:17 pm
    May 3, 2002 at 12:00 am
  • Is 5.8 not binary compatible with 5.6 in its extensions? Is there a way to turn on binary compatibility, and if so, what is the penalty for doing so? I did a test build of 5.8 and got this when ...
    Chris NandorChris Nandor
    Apr 23, 2002 at 5:10 pm
    May 1, 2002 at 3:11 am
  • I've compiled and installed several versions of perl5, going all the way back to perl5.000, and compared the times it took to run Configure, make, make test and make install. Up to 5.004, the entire ...
    AbigailAbigail
    Apr 9, 2002 at 8:48 am
    Apr 15, 2002 at 3:27 pm
  • http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@16005.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@16005.tbz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@16005.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@16005.tbz ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 19, 2002 at 2:40 pm
    Apr 26, 2002 at 12:51 am
  • Erick, I no longer maintain Storable. It is now part of the Perl core. I'm forwarding your message to the new maintainers. Raphael ----- Forwarded message from Erick Calder <e@arix.com ----- Date: ...
    Raphael ManfrediRaphael Manfredi
    Apr 27, 2002 at 9:50 am
    May 6, 2002 at 10:24 pm
  • The following regex causes a segfault in the regex compilation phase: % bin/perl5.7.3 -e'use utf8; $x = qr/\x95??\x{5655}/' Segmentation fault The segfault happens on my Lintel system but not on my ...
    Mark KvaleMark Kvale
    Apr 25, 2002 at 5:23 am
    May 2, 2002 at 2:16 pm
  • I am recovering from cold when I released Encode-1.64, avaiable as follows. Whole: http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/Encode-1.64.tar.gz and CPAN Diff agains current: 16529 lines (because of new ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Apr 29, 2002 at 7:25 am
    May 1, 2002 at 8:15 am
  • Yikes. I DID fix the behavior as documented. But it was not just Encode::CN::HZ that was taking advantage of UNDOCUMENTED feature after all :). Looks good to me. Maybe I should add constants for ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Apr 19, 2002 at 12:10 am
    Apr 20, 2002 at 8:57 pm
  • Hi! I've found the cause of the problem I reported earlier to Jarkko. It seems that when enc2xs creates its files, two of them are called "something.h" and "something_def.h". Unfortunately under 8.3 ...
    Laszlo MolnarLaszlo Molnar
    Apr 3, 2002 at 6:16 pm
    Apr 4, 2002 at 8:18 am
  • This is a bug report for perl from abigail@foad.org, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...
    AbigailAbigail
    Apr 12, 2002 at 10:46 am
    May 25, 2012 at 3:30 pm
  • Ok, my mistake. Since this seemed "impossible" to me, I went and read the source code for it.... the way this is done [using a second pipe, which sends errno to the parent in case of exec failing] is ...
    Benjamin GoldbergBenjamin Goldberg
    Apr 19, 2002 at 9:38 pm
    Apr 20, 2002 at 11:25 pm
  • With PerlIO, you can create a "virtual file" in a scalar: my $data; open(DATA, " ", \$data) or die $!; That's a useful technique, and it ought to become widespread after 5.8 is released. In ...
    Robin HoustonRobin Houston
    Apr 17, 2002 at 12:53 pm
    Apr 18, 2002 at 1:03 am
  • http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15930.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15930.tbz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15930.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15930.tbz ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 15, 2002 at 3:49 pm
    Apr 16, 2002 at 11:18 pm
  • This isn't an April's fool email though I feel as if this perl were an April's fool perl. With todays perl I cannot get the same job done that was working with perl@14354. My application (an indexer) ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Apr 1, 2002 at 1:14 pm
    Apr 2, 2002 at 8:06 am
  • Hi, I reported this more that a week ago, but there were no response, yet, problem is still there. I have installed ASPerl 522, but before building current bleadperl I removed it (ASPerl) from the ...
    Nikola KnezevicNikola Knezevic
    Apr 26, 2002 at 6:06 pm
    Apr 29, 2002 at 9:25 am
  • (Please Cc replies) What's going on here? SV *dst = sv_2mortal(newSV(2*slen+1)); if (slen) { U8 *d = (U8 *) SvGROW(dst, 2*slen+1); We create a mortal SV with length (2*slen+1), then try to grow it to ...
    Simon CozensSimon Cozens
    Apr 26, 2002 at 10:44 pm
    Apr 28, 2002 at 9:32 am
  • In 5.7.3, the manicheck() function from ExtUtils::Manifest appears to be consulting the MANIFEST.SKIP file. This is contrary to the documentation, and inconsistent with earlier versions. One place ...
    Andy DoughertyAndy Dougherty
    Apr 17, 2002 at 4:59 pm
    Apr 19, 2002 at 3:10 pm
  • This is a bug report for perl generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.6.1. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter your report here] (I ...
    Andrew PimlottAndrew Pimlott
    Apr 11, 2002 at 8:20 pm
    Apr 12, 2002 at 5:05 pm
  • No report, just the raw mktest.out file. smoke.sh can't generate a report if the last run failed in the configure, and the machine is too slow to make a new build before I have to leave. Quite a bit ...
    AbigailAbigail
    Apr 3, 2002 at 4:13 pm
    Apr 4, 2002 at 2:09 pm
  • Cygwin is easy to setup: go to http://www.cygwin.com/, click on the "Install Cygwin now!", Execute (setup.exe), choose your mirror, and keep on clicking "Ok"... though IIRC, after the first ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 2, 2002 at 3:13 pm
    Apr 2, 2002 at 8:45 pm
  • This program illustrates missing UTF-8 flag on the result of a from_to: % /usr/local/perl-5.7.3@16151/bin/perl -e ' use Encode; my $euro = chr(0x80); # Euro sign in cp1250 ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Apr 25, 2002 at 3:34 am
    Apr 27, 2002 at 11:36 am
  • I think the key here is threads. IIRC (I've blown away that copy of bleadperl) I built 15661 with ithreads. I've also built this new bleadperl with ithreads. The last one, where POSIX::WEXITSTATUS ...
    Michael G SchwernMichael G Schwern
    Apr 25, 2002 at 3:19 pm
    Apr 25, 2002 at 9:33 pm
  • This one is easy to fix. diff -u -r1.33 Encode.pm --- Encode.pm 2002/04/10 22:30:14 1.33 +++ Encode.pm 2002/04/12 18:28:23 @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ $_[1] = '' if $chk; return $res; }; - ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Apr 12, 2002 at 6:50 pm
    Apr 14, 2002 at 4:02 pm
  • Hi, I came across a stubble bug in the following code: my ($credit_date, $debit_date) = ($sth- fetchrow_arrayref- [0], $sth- fetchrow_arrayref- [0]); fetchrow_arrayref always returns a reference to a ...
    Leonid IgolnikLeonid Igolnik
    Apr 4, 2002 at 2:53 am
    Apr 4, 2002 at 6:57 pm
  • http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15662.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@15662.tbz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15662.tgz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@15662.tbz ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Apr 1, 2002 at 6:24 pm
    Apr 2, 2002 at 2:54 am
  • I hope I'm providing enough information. I noticed this first with perl@16225, but didn't say anything because you guys so often know about these things pretty quickly. However, the problem still ...
    Richard HatchRichard Hatch
    Apr 29, 2002 at 7:51 pm
    May 3, 2002 at 12:22 pm
  • This patch does two things : 1. The patch to scope.h fixes bug id 20020427.004 2. The rest changes the implementation of the sort pragma so it continues to work. Basically, it uses a global variable ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Apr 29, 2002 at 10:29 pm
    May 2, 2002 at 8:44 pm
  • This is a build failure report for perl from sthoenna@efn.org, generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.3. ext/PerlIO/t/via.t is hanging after the last test. Looked at it and ...
    SthoennaSthoenna
    Apr 22, 2002 at 2:56 am
    Apr 24, 2002 at 1:34 am
  • I've sent the first patch cleaning up the first 17 files from unescaped bleadperl pod rendering tools don't complain about these problems (I've detected all the problems with Pod::POM). I need your ...
    Stas BekmanStas Bekman
    Apr 22, 2002 at 5:21 am
    Apr 22, 2002 at 6:06 pm
  • as of perl patch 15887, Cwd lib is not taint clean. So forget using mod_perl under -T if anything uses Cwd. I'm working on the patch (at least solving bugs that I see appearing under -T). I'm almost ...
    Stas BekmanStas Bekman
    Apr 14, 2002 at 3:54 pm
    Apr 16, 2002 at 2:39 pm
  • Okay alpha at http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/upload/Tk804.0_23.tar.gz You need recent bleadperl, and in particular a recent Encode - I am using Encode-1.33 which is what is in perl's perforce depot. Works ...
    NickNick
    Apr 12, 2002 at 9:09 am
    Apr 15, 2002 at 2:27 pm
  • Miyagawa-kun, This is definetely a bug that needs to be fixed. Oops. Arigato. I'll add a test suite for - data() and - encoding(). Well, I love OOP but that does not necessarily mean I enjoy typing ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Apr 10, 2002 at 9:00 pm
    Apr 14, 2002 at 5:22 pm
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