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  • lep a5:/pro/tu/lep/4gl/l03f000 137 perl -Mcharnames=:full,alias,pro -le'print "\N{y_DIAERES}"' | dump [DUMP 0.5.05 UX] 00000000 FF 0A .. lep a5:/pro/tu/lep/4gl/l03f000 138 perl ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 24, 2002 at 2:10 pm
    Nov 1, 2002 at 9:47 am
  • As a start for a `normal' interface to the interperters internals, this time no open hack, but a neat interface. Very open to additions. Useful? Feedback please NAME Devel-Internals - Perl extension ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 2, 2002 at 11:50 am
    Oct 11, 2002 at 9:10 pm
  • I've had a few reports of the newest Compress::ZLib failing its test suite on Redhat 8 + 5.8.0. After a bit of digging with the assistance of the first person to report the issue, I've boiled the ...
    Paul MarquessPaul Marquess
    Oct 30, 2002 at 9:35 pm
    Nov 19, 2002 at 11:56 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Autrijus Tang # Please include the string: [perl #18107] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Autrijus TangAutrijus Tang
    Oct 29, 2002 at 2:43 am
    Dec 9, 2002 at 1:13 am
  • I have a task for someone. I know approximately what to do but I do not have the time to do it-- and implementing what it takes wouldn't sit that well with my intention of taking some time off from ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Oct 7, 2002 at 2:32 pm
    Oct 8, 2002 at 9:27 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by David Kernen # Please include the string: [perl #18066] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    David KernenDavid Kernen
    Oct 23, 2002 at 9:54 pm
    Nov 5, 2002 at 9:23 pm
  • I was fooled for a moment by the misleading DO NOT EDIT headers that did not mention embed.fnc. regen_headers, of course. --- embed.pl.dist 2002-10-23 18:34:05.000000000 +0300 +++ embed.pl 2002-10-23 ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Oct 23, 2002 at 3:41 pm
    Nov 19, 2002 at 1:18 pm
  • The new safe signal implementation seems to cause a number of problems. In former perl versions, it was possible to use the following snippet $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die }; eval { alarm($timeout); # ...
    Slaven RezicSlaven Rezic
    Oct 13, 2002 at 4:28 pm
    Oct 14, 2002 at 8:29 am
  • cc -c -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include -Ae -DDEBUGGING -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -I/pro/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 +O2 +Onolimit -DVERSION=\"1.804\" ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 9, 2002 at 7:25 am
    Oct 10, 2002 at 9:11 am
  • Hi all, File::Spec::Win32::rel2abs('../../dir') returns cwd/../../dir which is IMHO wrong as this result is good for shell only and is not good for other uses. AFAIK, this is intended behavior in ...
    Information ServiceInformation Service
    Oct 2, 2002 at 10:09 am
    Oct 9, 2002 at 4:25 am
  • Can I uncover the chainsaw? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 1, 2002 at 12:53 pm
    Oct 8, 2002 at 4:47 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by David Dyck # Please include the string: [perl #18055] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    David DyckDavid Dyck
    Oct 22, 2002 at 6:15 pm
    Oct 24, 2002 at 10:11 am
  • (Or perl not accurate enough, perhaps.) When compiled with long doubles, we get a test failure: ext/Storable/t/code..................B::Deparse version 0.609.999.999.999.999.987 required--this is ...
    HvHv
    Oct 11, 2002 at 12:53 pm
    Oct 17, 2002 at 3:50 pm
  • Subject: Re: Net::Ping 2.23 failure on Irix Subject: Re: FAIL Net-Ping-2.23 IP30-irix-thread-multi-64int-ld 6.5 Subject: Re: FAIL Net-Ping-2.23 sun4-solaris 2.8 cpan testing: Ugh, you're killing me. ...
    Rob BrownRob Brown
    Oct 21, 2002 at 4:51 pm
    Nov 19, 2002 at 6:48 pm
  • Could we remove the facility to set the bug severity from perlbug? All users' bugs are high priority, because they are high priority to them. Hence this field is usually not set to anything ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Oct 22, 2002 at 9:12 pm
    Nov 7, 2002 at 2:51 pm
  • Automated smoke report for patch 18027 on MSWin32 - 5.0 Win2000Pro (MSWin32-x86) v1.16_03 using gcc version 3.2 O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = still running or test results ...
    Abe TimmermanAbe Timmerman
    Oct 17, 2002 at 9:14 pm
    Oct 23, 2002 at 7:12 pm
  • Houston, we have a problem. It looks like we get failures, probably SEGVs, from t/op/closure, for configurations with perl's malloc and no threads and no -DDEBUGGING That combination may be ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Oct 5, 2002 at 2:40 am
    Oct 12, 2002 at 3:30 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Chris Darroch # Please include the string: [perl #17757] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Chris DarrochChris Darroch
    Oct 4, 2002 at 6:19 pm
    Jan 21, 2003 at 3:25 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Jan Dubois # Please include the string: [perl #18113] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Jan DuboisJan Dubois
    Oct 29, 2002 at 2:43 am
    Nov 19, 2002 at 12:58 pm
  • Is there a reason why require is always called in scalar context ? $ cat foo.pl (3,4,5); $ perl -le 'print require "foo.pl"' 5 $ perl -MO=Concise -e 'print require "foo.pl"' 7 <@ leave[t1] vKP/REFC - ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Oct 18, 2002 at 10:13 pm
    Nov 11, 2002 at 10:33 pm
  • FYI: cygwin-1.3.13-2 is out. With - surprise - a long changelist available on the site (www.cywin.com). Lost of thread and timer fixes. Smoke is running. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 15, 2002 at 10:05 am
    Oct 23, 2002 at 10:09 am
  • This is a problem that occurs when installing perl5.8.0 over perl5.6.x, I think (Ccing perl5-porters for confirmation). Here's what happened: perl5.8.0 tried to reuse perl modules from perl5.6.1. ...
    Barrie SlaymakerBarrie Slaymaker
    Oct 16, 2002 at 7:57 pm
    Oct 17, 2002 at 7:14 pm
  • Hi, I just uploaded Safe.pm 2.08 to PAUSE, however it only works on 5.8 since it requires a newer Opcode.pm. Could/should Opcode be backported to 5.5/5.6 aswell? Any volunteers ;-), or should Safe.pm ...
    Arthur BergmanArthur Bergman
    Oct 5, 2002 at 6:41 pm
    Oct 6, 2002 at 12:40 pm
  • Does this qualify as a bug? ============================================================== #my ($one,$two) = @{foo()}; # doesn't work my ($list) = foo(); # works my ($one,$two) = @$list; print "$one, ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Oct 27, 2002 at 12:46 pm
    Oct 28, 2002 at 9:24 pm
  • Only alias supported, alias can be anon hash, file, or file with implicit :full While testing I noticed that charnames does not support :full *and* :short Alias files can also have :short aliases ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Oct 15, 2002 at 7:18 pm
    Oct 17, 2002 at 10:22 am
  • the blesses the first ref to the package that the second ref is already blessed to. What isn't clear about it? The idea is (was?) to allow inherited constructors. How do you rig an inheritable ...
    David NicolDavid Nicol
    Oct 10, 2002 at 6:44 pm
    Oct 14, 2002 at 8:43 am
  • Hi All, Somewhere between now and the earlier 5.9 builds the build process under Win32 VC7 (or VC6) has broken completely. A straight out of the box (er rsynch) fails build with the following: link ...
    Orton, YvesOrton, Yves
    Oct 4, 2002 at 4:33 pm
    Oct 12, 2002 at 3:26 pm
  • While everyone has their own preferences for searching the bug database for things to close, it's best to deal with them when they are first reported. Unfortunately, many bugs go by with no response ...
    Yitzchak Scott-ThoennesYitzchak Scott-Thoennes
    Oct 8, 2002 at 1:16 am
    Dec 6, 2002 at 8:17 pm
  • Hugo, I am now convinced that Inaba-san's patch that addresses tr/// vs. use encoding issue, is good enough to go into bleedperl. The problem was reported as follows; With this patch tr/// with ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Oct 21, 2002 at 8:36 am
    Nov 7, 2002 at 3:13 pm
  • This Week on perl5-porters (14-20 October 2002) This week, folks, I've written a low-fat summary. Not that I'm especially tired, but the bulk of messages in perl5-porters were bug reports and small ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Oct 21, 2002 at 8:18 pm
    Oct 29, 2002 at 9:41 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Andreas Jurenda # Please include the string: [perl #17744] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Andreas JurendaAndreas Jurenda
    Oct 4, 2002 at 2:58 pm
    Oct 5, 2002 at 9:51 am
  • .../ext/Storable/t/code.................NOK 38# Test 38 got: 'code sub { use strict 'refs'; 'JAPH'; } caused an error: caller trapped by operation mask at ../lib/strict.pm line 22. Compilation failed ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Oct 3, 2002 at 8:25 am
    Oct 3, 2002 at 9:45 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Barrie Slaymaker # Please include the string: [perl #18048] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Barrie SlaymakerBarrie Slaymaker
    Oct 22, 2002 at 4:47 am
    Nov 6, 2002 at 9:54 pm
  • This is a build failure report for perl from nick@ccl4.org, generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.9.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Oct 26, 2002 at 8:47 pm
    Oct 28, 2002 at 9:57 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de # Please include the string: [perl #18045] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de (via RT)tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de (via RT)
    Oct 21, 2002 at 11:07 pm
    Oct 22, 2002 at 10:12 pm
  • Below are some minor tweaks in Porting/pumpkin.pod. I also noticed that there are some modules which changed between 5.6.1 and 5.8.0, but still have the same version numbers. Maybe add a section to ...
    Slaven RezicSlaven Rezic
    Oct 3, 2002 at 7:57 pm
    Oct 18, 2002 at 8:51 pm
  • ' ', '0', ')' seem to be superfluous, respectively. diff -urN old/perlhist.pod new/perlhist.pod --- old/perlhist.pod Sun Oct 13 08:50:48 2002 +++ new/perlhist.pod Sun Oct 13 08:51:50 2002 @@ -38,7 ...
    SADAHIRO TomoyukiSADAHIRO Tomoyuki
    Oct 13, 2002 at 12:00 am
    Oct 14, 2002 at 9:41 pm
  • Can anybody confirm this is a typo? Regards, Slaven --- scope.c.orig Sat Oct 12 23:55:25 2002 +++ scope.c Sat Oct 12 23:55:38 2002 @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ Perl_leave_scope(pTHX_ I32 base) ptr = SSPOPPTR; ...
    Slaven RezicSlaven Rezic
    Oct 12, 2002 at 10:04 pm
    Oct 14, 2002 at 5:39 pm
  • This message is nothing other than an annoyance. If you can't trust the perldoc you installed, why should you trust the perl you installed? --- utils/perldoc.PL~ 2002-10-08 11:09:00.000000000 +0100 ...
    Simon CozensSimon Cozens
    Oct 8, 2002 at 10:13 am
    Oct 13, 2002 at 12:52 am
  • A while ago I came across something stating that my (@x, @y) was quicker than my @x; my @y; This is reasonably reasonable. What I didn't expect was that my (@x); my (@y); would be quicker than both ...
    Tony BowdenTony Bowden
    Oct 2, 2002 at 6:33 pm
    Oct 3, 2002 at 9:17 pm
  • CPAN/MakeMaker version 0.10 =========================== The module ExtUtils::MakeMaker is familiar to everybody. It's on the first line of every Makefile.PL of every module distribution on CPAN. The ...
    Brian IngersonBrian Ingerson
    Oct 28, 2002 at 1:29 am
    Nov 16, 2002 at 10:18 pm
  • Hello. I've attached a (very small) patch for Class::Struct that allows me to do: use Class::Struct ELEMENT_NAME = ELEMENT_TYPE, ... ; which has the same effect as: use Class::Struct; BEGIN { struct ...
    Marty PauleyMarty Pauley
    Oct 18, 2002 at 8:22 pm
    Nov 5, 2002 at 2:23 am
  • I can't build blead with gcc3.2 and ccache (on x86 linux, but I suspect the problem is portable) the problem would seem to be a side effect of how this bit of Configure interacts with how ccache ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Oct 29, 2002 at 3:01 pm
    Nov 4, 2002 at 5:19 pm
  • Dear Perl gurus, I noticed that some changes have been done to e.g. lib/Pod/Checker.pm in the perl-5.8.0 distribution, relative to PodParser-1.18 on CPAN. Who did these changes? There is one that ...
    Marek RouchalMarek Rouchal
    Oct 30, 2002 at 10:22 am
    Oct 31, 2002 at 4:46 pm
  • Hi all. In my effort to get Inline into the core I have attempted to change all the file path operations to use File::Spec. For the most part, things work. One thing I am doing is using catfile(), ...
    Brian IngersonBrian Ingerson
    Oct 23, 2002 at 5:43 am
    Oct 23, 2002 at 12:12 pm
  • -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, perl -Mbignum is supposed to catch all constants and convert them to BigInts/BigFloats. This is obviously neccessary for *all* cases, not only for big ...
    TelsTels
    Oct 13, 2002 at 11:32 am
    Oct 14, 2002 at 7:07 am
  • Assuming we want to see the warnings during the devel cycle: --- cflags.SH.dist 2002-10-05 21:44:19.000000000 +0300 +++ cflags.SH 2002-10-05 21:46:33.000000000 +0300 @@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ *-Wall*) ;; ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Oct 5, 2002 at 6:50 pm
    Oct 12, 2002 at 12:20 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Mark-Jason Dominus # Please include the string: [perl #18165] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Mark-Jason DominusMark-Jason Dominus
    Oct 30, 2002 at 5:38 pm
    Dec 8, 2002 at 11:15 pm
  • It looks like we have lost threads in Windows 2000 (for all three supported compilers) Could this have to do with Merijn's chainsaw job on the 5005 threads? Automated smoke report for patch 18064 on ...
    by way of Abe Timmermanby way of Abe Timmerman
    Oct 26, 2002 at 1:00 pm
    Nov 12, 2002 at 11:20 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes # Please include the string: [perl #18175] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Yitzchak Scott-ThoennesYitzchak Scott-Thoennes
    Oct 31, 2002 at 5:38 am
    Nov 7, 2002 at 8:06 am
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