perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for May 2003

41	RE: newbie CPAN usage question

Oooo...a shadowing thing....that could make some sense. I'm trying (would like to) use a shared CPAN source cache between two different systems and about 3 different versions (architectures, actually ...

Linda w.
May 22, 2003 at 10:45 pm
Jun 2, 2003 at 9:04 pm

40	Re: rfc: skip_index in META.yml

Here is one more thing to take into an account. I've just received this from the indexer: User: STAS (Stas Bekman) Distribution file: Apache-Test-1.01.tar.gz Number of files: 37 *.pm files: 27 ...

Stas Bekman
May 1, 2003 at 6:50 am
May 28, 2003 at 12:09 am

30	rfc: CPAN and its clients to provide external dependencies versioning support

A growing number of CPAN modules which provide interfaces to external (mostly C) libraries/projects encounter a problem, when the underlying interface goes through major changes, which doesn't ...

Stas Bekman
May 6, 2003 at 6:05 am
May 8, 2003 at 4:22 pm

29	your malloc patches

Could you please grab a later maint snapshot http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19613.tgz and forward-fit your malloc debug patches to that? Firstly, there is no Perl_doing_taint(). Secondly, neither gcc nor ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
May 26, 2003 at 9:52 pm
Jul 19, 2005 at 7:14 am

24	Meaning of sysread()

Some of you may have been aware that Sarathy and I have been trying to resolve meaning of sysread(). perl5.8.0 breaks some legacy Win32 code which expects sysread() to do CRLF translation (not on ...

Nick Ing-Simmons
May 21, 2003 at 10:52 am
May 30, 2003 at 9:10 am

24	Alpha module version numbers

I was talking to Autrijus and Leon about version numbers and noticed that the documented method of denoting an alpha module release and the way that PAUSE and search denote them do not match. From ...

Elaine -HFB- Ashton
May 15, 2003 at 1:07 pm
May 19, 2003 at 2:07 pm

22	Last Call For (Least) Favourite Issues For 5.8.1

Alan found problems in the symbol scanning, I know VMS is unhappy, we still have some problems in BSD smokes, Arthur still wants some ithreads things in, Net::Ping is failing some tests in Win32, and ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
May 15, 2003 at 4:00 pm
May 19, 2003 at 2:25 am

20	Can I OVERLOAD the assignment operator? Please???

As usual with my version object patches, the progress is always asymptotic. I am so close, and yet so far! :~( I have this working (and not): $VERSION = "1.2_3"; # version object, like new version ...

John Peacock
May 22, 2003 at 2:05 pm
May 24, 2003 at 7:48 pm

18	[perl #22261] Unrecognised BOM when reading a file larger than 1k with encoding(UTF-16)

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Jeremy Devenport
May 21, 2003 at 3:21 pm
May 23, 2003 at 3:16 pm

18	Re: CPAN Upload: J/JV/JV/Getopt-Long-2.32_03.tar.gz

[Quoting PAUSE, on May 9 2003, 21:17, in "CPAN Upload: J/JV/JV"] This version implements automatic support for --version and --help options. You are invited to try it out and feedback. ...

Johan Vromans
May 9, 2003 at 7:55 pm
May 13, 2003 at 10:21 am

16	[perl #22181] goto undefines my() variables

# New Ticket Created by Ilya Sandler # Please include the string: [perl #22181] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Ilya Sandler
May 12, 2003 at 8:25 pm
May 22, 2003 at 9:13 am

15	[PATCH] perlsyn.pod Revamp (take 2)

Shlomi Fish
May 10, 2003 at 9:42 am
May 15, 2003 at 6:11 pm

15	Re: [perl #8860] [not RESOLVED] .pmc extension not documented in require

This really isn't resolved, as perldoc -f require states If EXPR is a bareword, the require assumes a ".pm" extension and replaces "::" with "/" in the filename for you, to make it easy to load ...

David Dyck
May 9, 2003 at 8:02 pm
May 12, 2003 at 5:53 pm

14	Should we deprecate $; ?

$; is the subscript separator for multidimensional array emulation (as says perlvar). Basically it works like this : $ perl -MO=Deparse -e '$x{1,2}' $x{join $;, 1, 2}; In our Unicode and UTF8 world, ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
May 13, 2003 at 9:51 pm
Jun 25, 2003 at 11:56 am

13	[perl #22339] IO::Handle::setvbuf not defined properly

# New Ticket Created by Mark-Jason Dominus # Please include the string: [perl #22339] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Mark-Jason Dominus
May 27, 2003 at 5:10 pm
Jun 16, 2003 at 6:29 pm

13	Does filetest work at all?

If I try use filetest as advertised, use filetest 'access'; my $x = -x "/COPYRIGHT"; truss reports on FreeBSD 4.6 with perl 5.8.0: ... fcntl(0x3,0x2,0x1) = 0 (0x0) stat("/COPYRIGHT",0x8119240) = 0 ...

Slaven Rezic
May 1, 2003 at 3:56 pm
May 3, 2003 at 7:17 pm

12	bleadperl on Windows2000 with MS VisualC 6.0

I had today the opportunity to try bleadperl on a Windows2000 machine (not mine) with the Microsoft Visual C compiler. I got the following failures: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of ...

Enache Adrian
May 11, 2003 at 10:17 pm
May 18, 2003 at 8:35 pm

11	[perl #22372] foreach variable referenced in format segfaults

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kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (via RT)
May 29, 2003 at 9:52 pm
May 31, 2003 at 7:50 pm

11	maint snapshot @ 19525

A new maint snapshot: http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19525.tbz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19525.tgz Changes since the last: [ 19524] By: jhi on 2003/05/14 05:25:28 Log: Integrate: [ 19516] Subject: ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
May 14, 2003 at 6:59 am
May 16, 2003 at 4:17 pm

10	[perl #22189] patch: perl 5.8.0 compile error on ia64/HP-UX (broken attribute test)

# New Ticket Created by Petter Reinholdtsen # Please include the string: [perl #22189] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Petter Reinholdtsen
May 13, 2003 at 9:43 pm
May 19, 2003 at 1:48 pm

10	Ratio behind indenting of the Perl source

Hi, does anyone have any insight into the sometimes quite idiosyncratic indenting and formatting of the code found in the Perl source-tree? I am again trying to mangle in a patch into h2xs to make it ...

Tassilo von Parseval
May 12, 2003 at 9:50 am
May 12, 2003 at 8:24 pm

10	RFC: Alternative approach to kill on Win32 (NT) systems

The current method for killing processes on Win32 systems is to call the TerminateProcess() method (excluding the PostThreadMessage() used for pseudo-forks for the moment). While effective, this is ...

Daniel Berger
May 11, 2003 at 2:20 pm
May 12, 2003 at 7:52 am

9	[perl #22077] Module Loading on Case-Insensitive File Systems

# New Ticket Created by David Wheeler # Please include the string: [perl #22077] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

David Wheeler
May 1, 2003 at 1:00 pm
Sep 2, 2013 at 10:56 pm

9	[ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.10_04

http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.10_04.tar.gz or a CPAN near you. The big news this release is building XS modules is finally fixed with 5.005_03. Otherwise its just a bunch of ...

Michael G Schwern
May 23, 2003 at 9:08 am
May 31, 2003 at 9:32 am

9	Bug stomping fun.

While looking over some really old bugs in my spare time. Here is a list of some of the obvious ones for someone with the right privileges to do what they deem necessary. I can, in the future, make a ...

Larry Shatzer
May 1, 2003 at 8:19 pm
May 12, 2003 at 11:07 pm

8	[perl #22354] s/// flags influence regex use in the replacement body

# New Ticket Created by perl-5.8.0@ton.iguana.be # Please include the string: [perl #22354] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

perl-5.8.0@ton.iguana.be (via RT)
May 29, 2003 at 2:59 pm
Jul 7, 2003 at 1:30 pm

8	a2p is linked against too many libraries

Hi, As of the previous main snapshot (19525) on modern linux system, I found out that a2p is linked against too many libraries which it does not actually use: $ make -n a2p sh -c true `sh cflags ...

Alexey Tourbin
May 28, 2003 at 8:57 am
May 28, 2003 at 11:07 pm

8	another failure caused by gcc sparc64 bugginess

t/comp/require.t: ok 9 # Perl v11.18446744073709550817.0 required (did you mean v11.184467440737095508?)--this is only v5.8.1, stopped at t/comp/require.t line 77. not ok 10 # Perl ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
May 23, 2003 at 2:28 pm
May 23, 2003 at 7:59 pm

8	sparc64 / netbsd

I just get a Ultra-1 and install netbsd on it. NetBSD zeus 1.6.1 NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Apr 7 10:27:16 UTC 2003 ...

Alian
May 11, 2003 at 11:13 pm
May 22, 2003 at 8:49 pm

8	Re: -Duseshrplib

Sorry for this late response. Even if this patch has been applied: Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: I always have this problem: Making DynaLoader (static_pic) make[1]: Entre dans le re'pertoire ...

Alian
May 6, 2003 at 9:28 am
May 20, 2003 at 10:01 pm

8	[campo@marimba.nl: Re: openbsd]

----- Forwarded message from Campo Weijerman <campo@marimba.nl ----- Subject: Re: openbsd From: Campo Weijerman <campo@marimba.nl Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:14:07 +0200 Message-ID: ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
May 14, 2003 at 8:08 pm
May 19, 2003 at 12:48 am

8	[perl #22182] regular expression bug (design limitation?)

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esp5@mdss03.comp.pge.com (via RT)
May 13, 2003 at 3:26 pm
May 18, 2003 at 1:25 pm

8	[perl #22111] perl::Encode doesn't handle UTF-8 NFD strings

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debianbugs@j3e.de (via RT)
May 5, 2003 at 11:13 pm
May 13, 2003 at 12:36 pm

7	Perl 5.8.0 on AIX 5.1

I am trying to compile Perl 5.8.0 on AIX 5.1 using vac 6.0.0.1. My end goal is to compile a threaded version to be used with apache2 and mod_perl. On the way there, I am just trying to get perl to ...

Steven M. Carter
May 2, 2003 at 3:00 pm
May 29, 2003 at 2:43 pm

7	[PATCH] alphabetize perldiag.pod

This patch reorders entries in perldiag.pod to put them in alphabetical order. This patch is based on perldiag.pod in perl@19333. The entries are alphabetized according to the explanation at the top ...

Ronald J Kimball
May 8, 2003 at 3:53 pm
May 14, 2003 at 1:55 pm

7	[perl #22163] perlio callback functions get their args mangled

# New Ticket Created by Stas Bekman # Please include the string: [perl #22163] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Stas Bekman
May 9, 2003 at 1:52 pm
May 12, 2003 at 8:00 am

7	perl 5.8.0 not concurrency safe

It seems a bunch of globals that are neither constants nor mutexes-that-protect-truly-global-state have snuck into perlvars.h. This breaks concurrency safety pretty badly, so they need to get moved ...

Gurusamy Sarathy
May 3, 2003 at 6:47 pm
May 7, 2003 at 5:39 pm

6	[perl #22193] perlop and integer docs are inconsistent about use integer

# New Ticket Created by "Adam M. Costello" # Please include the string: [perl #22193] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Adam M. Costello
May 14, 2003 at 12:52 am
Sep 29, 2010 at 3:13 am

6	Time::Local on CPAN?

DateTime.pm needs Time::Local, and being able to require the most recent version (as included in the core for 5.8.0) would be really helpful, since there have been signifcant fixes in recent ...

Dave Rolsky
May 30, 2003 at 5:46 pm
May 31, 2003 at 9:43 pm

6	[PATCH] Extra newline in stringified qr/\#/x

Heya, As discussed at http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=261206 there is a small bug with stringification of regexes containing escaped #s with the /x modifier. The patch below fixes it; thanks to ...

Alex Vandiver
May 30, 2003 at 7:55 am
May 31, 2003 at 12:46 am

6	[perl #22291] 5.8.x: no warnings "redefine" doesn't affect constant subs

# New Ticket Created by Stas Bekman # Please include the string: [perl #22291] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Stas Bekman
May 23, 2003 at 7:17 am
May 30, 2003 at 9:16 am

6	maint snap @ 19613

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19613.tgz http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl@19613.tbz Changes since the last: [ 19612] By: jhi on 2003/05/24 07:53:25 Log: Regen the old-style VOS config files. Branch: ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
May 24, 2003 at 11:06 am
May 27, 2003 at 11:57 am

6	[PATCH pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod] Unseding perlsyn

I've removed some of the references to awk/sed/C in the docs, left others in that I felt were helpful or didn't cause a digression (ie. a "C-style for loop"). Useful information moved to perltrap. ...

Michael G Schwern
May 14, 2003 at 1:50 am
May 18, 2003 at 10:55 pm

6	when multidim emulation works

Is this a bug? % perl -le '$e{(0,1,2,3)} = 3; @a=(0,1,2,3); print $e{@q=@a}' % perl -le '$e{(0,1,2,3)} = 3; @a=(0,1,2,3); print $e{@a}' % perl -le '$e{(0,1,2,3)} = 3; @a=(0,1,2,3); print ...

David nicol
May 12, 2003 at 3:13 am
May 14, 2003 at 9:47 pm

6	That which is better left unsed: Removing language digressions

The recent threads about perlsyn made me take another look at the Perl documentation. It talks an awful lot about other languages to the point of sometimes obscuring the point: Perl. I've come to the ...

Michael G Schwern
May 14, 2003 at 1:16 am
May 14, 2003 at 2:22 pm

6	[PATCH] [perl #8253] clarity on win32 (gm\|local)time errors

http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=8253 Ok. With the help of Sean Burke I've managed to come up with some sort of reasonable text for perlport as the requestor ... requested. The patch is ...

Casey West
May 9, 2003 at 10:50 am
May 11, 2003 at 8:19 pm

6	Making tests run anywhere

It is a shame that so well designed test engine is useless for testing whether Perl works. As a first step, one could do edits like this one (sorry, reverted): --- ./t/op/pack.t-edited Mon May 5 ...

Ilya Zakharevich
May 5, 2003 at 8:32 pm
May 6, 2003 at 9:21 pm

5	Proposal for Module::Build installation dirs

Hi, I'd like to get the ball rolling on the installation map stuff for M::B, as I think it's the only thing holding up the 0.19 release. Here's my idea of what I think we should do, please give me ...

Ken Williams
May 14, 2003 at 5:14 pm
Jul 3, 2003 at 5:54 pm

5	files that do not pass syntax check

Hi, As of the previous maint snapshot (19525) installed on a modern linux system, I found out that some perl source files do not pass 'perl -c' syntax check. Though some cases may be arguable ...

Alexey Tourbin
May 29, 2003 at 4:25 am
Jun 10, 2003 at 2:25 pm

5	Smoke alert

Something changed between 19629 and 19639: HP-UX HP-UX HP-UX HP-UX AIX AIX cygwin 11.00 11.00 10.20 10.20 4.3.3 4.3.3 1.3.23s HPc gcc HPc gcc vac gcc gcc 19629 19629 19629 19629 19629 19629 19629 ...

H.Merijn Brand
May 30, 2003 at 12:02 pm
Jun 3, 2003 at 9:49 am

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