perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for December 2004

93	broken PAUSE indexer? META.yaml is ignored?

Failing to contact PAUSE people in private, posting it here as the last resort. I remember seeing emails stating that META.yaml was supported by PAUSE in particular the private: key The released ...

Stas Bekman
Dec 13, 2004 at 8:18 pm
Dec 26, 2004 at 9:54 pm

31	[perl #33106] perl does not warn if the argument eq "NaN"

# New Ticket Created by Tels # Please include the string: [perl #33106] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Tels
Dec 19, 2004 at 1:27 pm
Jan 9, 2005 at 4:13 pm

27	add 'since' availability tags to perlapi.pod?

For some reason I think I've asked this before, but I can't find it. So please excuse me if this is a dup. I was wondering why perlapi.pod doesn't indicate when a certain API was added. I've tried to ...

Stas Bekman
Dec 18, 2004 at 4:19 pm
Dec 30, 2004 at 9:40 pm

26	perlpodtut II

Attached is the revised version of perlpodtut, based on your well appreciated feedback. The second attachment is the diff with the previous version. I removed the derivation of SYNOPSIS. Not because ...

Juerd
Dec 26, 2004 at 9:01 pm
Jan 4, 2005 at 12:09 am

25	[ANNOUNCE] ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.25_06

http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.25_06.tar.gz or http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/tags/VERSION=6.25_06 or a CPAN near you. Getting closer to a release. This ...

Michael G Schwern
Dec 26, 2004 at 10:29 pm
Dec 31, 2004 at 9:36 pm

25	[perl #7904] Win32::Console problem

Sorry, but Win32::Console is not part of the core Perl distribution. It is part of the core ActiveState distribution, so you can report the bug to them at ...

Steve Peters via RT
Dec 1, 2004 at 4:56 pm
Dec 15, 2004 at 9:15 pm

24	[PATCH] File::Find dies on find({follow=>1, ...}) on Win32

Hi, perl (at least of 5.8.4 and later), has a neat feature that doesn't let you do -l if the last stat wasn't an lstat. Unfortunately, this breaks win32 quite heavily: C:\tmp perl ...

Jos I. Boumans
Dec 17, 2004 at 2:13 pm
Jan 21, 2005 at 11:24 am

20	perlpodtut

Hi there, Over a year and a half ago, I wrote "POD in 5 minutes". There was no POD tutorial, and people had said that perlpod was a bit overwhelming for a POD-newbie. This tutorial has already helped ...

Juerd
Dec 24, 2004 at 10:12 am
Dec 26, 2004 at 1:40 am

19	5.8.6 breaks Spiffy::super() (used by Kwiki, IO::All others)

Hi All, Here's a script that shows a definite change between 5.8.5 and 5.8.6. It causes Spiffy::super() to not work, which is an integral part of the Kwiki framework. I've whittled it down to this so ...

Brian Ingerson
Dec 3, 2004 at 1:58 am
Dec 6, 2004 at 11:07 pm

13	RE: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Simple/More/Builder 0.54 (problem with signa ture?)

has Ok, patch is below (im curious why you dont use the threaded build if youd care to explain :-) diff -wurd Test-Simple-0.54/t/fork.t Test-Simple-0.54-Patched/t/fork.t --- Test-Simple-0.54/t/fork.t ...

Orton, Yves
Dec 15, 2004 at 1:06 pm
Dec 17, 2004 at 9:16 am

13	Can't locate auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix

I'm compiling 5.8.6 for my various boxes and was reminded of this warning that has been there for quite some time now (I think Alan Burlison noticed it many moons ago). The below example is from Mac ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Dec 12, 2004 at 2:28 pm
Dec 17, 2004 at 12:45 am

13	Overlong UTF-8 (Re: Make Encode.pm support the real UTF-8)

The current Encode utf8 decoder already refuse these as this is one of the things that perl's internal is_utf8_char() actually check for. The current encoder does not check anything so it might emit ...

Gisle Aas
Dec 3, 2004 at 11:36 am
Dec 9, 2004 at 5:39 pm

12	RE: [perl #32714] Objects destroyed in the wrong order during glo bal destruction

destruction I thought order of destruction in perl in general was undefined? At least Perltoot seems to agree with me: "Perl's notion of the right time to call a destructor is not well-defined ...

Orton, Yves
Dec 2, 2004 at 5:45 pm
Dec 3, 2004 at 9:43 pm

11	[perl #33003] Core dump on simple instruction

# New Ticket Created by John Krivitsky # Please include the string: [perl #33003] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

John Krivitsky
Dec 11, 2004 at 12:33 pm
Dec 15, 2004 at 11:18 am

11	[perl #32949] FileCache only works in "main" package

# New Ticket Created by kai@bolay.de # Please include the string: [perl #32949] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Kai @ bolay . de
Dec 7, 2004 at 10:45 pm
Dec 15, 2004 at 8:19 am

10	utf-8 smoke noise from ext/B/t/xref.t

I re-setup Perl smokes in a Tru64 box after some bit rot had disabled my old smoke setup. Otherwise smoking along nicely, but under a UTF-8 locale there is some test noise that doesn't seem to affect ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Dec 1, 2004 at 6:04 am
Dec 2, 2004 at 5:24 am

9	modf chainsaw?

It looks to me like the only use of modfl? is now in pp_pack.c, and that looks like a bizarre kind of way to do something by someone who didn't know that fmod existed. Can someone who has some idea ...

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Dec 14, 2004 at 9:49 am
Jan 3, 2005 at 5:42 pm

8	Static linking notes --- perl5.8.6 and uClibc

I'm working on Bent Linux, a distro that uses strictly static linking, with uClibc. To get perl to build in that env, I use -Uusedl -Uusefaststdio, and the attached patch; the latter because uClibc's ...

Bennett Todd
Dec 27, 2004 at 9:45 pm
Jan 3, 2005 at 5:50 pm

8	$Config{extensions} !~ /\bSome\/Module\b/ or eval {require Some::Module}

Why do the tests do this: require Config; import Config; if ($Config{'extensions'} !~ /\bData\/Dumper\b/) { print "1..0 # Skip: Data::Dumper was not built\n"; exit 0; } When it would seem to be a ...

Michael G Schwern
Dec 9, 2004 at 6:41 am
Dec 29, 2004 at 8:25 pm

8	Smoke [5.9.2] 23670 FAIL(m) openbsd 3.6 (i386/1 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.9.2 patch 23670 mccoy.peters.homeunix.org: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) (i386/1 cpu) on openbsd - 3.6 using cc version 2.95.3 20010125 ...

Steve
Dec 23, 2004 at 9:47 am
Dec 24, 2004 at 2:07 pm

8	Change 23610 fails on Win32

C:\p5p\bleadperl\t .\perl -I..\lib ..\lib\Config.t [...] not ok 130 - Expect archlibexp 'c:\perl\lib' to be in @INC # Failed at ..\lib\Config.t line 258 not ok 131 - Expect privlibexp 'c:\perl\lib' ...

Steve Hay
Dec 6, 2004 at 3:36 pm
Dec 23, 2004 at 10:23 pm

8	Should grep() affect weakened refs?

While fixing some issues with ogd.pm (version 0.02 is now on its way to CPAN), I came along this phenomenon. Take this little program: =================================================== use ...

Elizabeth Mattijsen
Dec 4, 2004 at 9:17 am
Dec 7, 2004 at 7:54 pm

7	[perl #32915] "Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator" while evaluating a string that match /0+[89]\d+/

# New Ticket Created by Tobias Spranger # Please include the string: [perl #32915] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Tobias Spranger
Dec 6, 2004 at 9:07 pm
Jun 30, 2013 at 12:50 am

7	[perl #33173] shellwords.pl and tainting

# New Ticket Created by perl-5.8.0@ton.iguana.be # Please include the string: [perl #33173] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Perl-5 . 8 . 0 @ ton . iguana . be
Dec 24, 2004 at 12:14 am
Jan 20, 2005 at 6:48 pm

7	Smoke [5.9.2] 23634 FAIL(F) openbsd 3.6 (i386/1 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.9.2 patch 23634 mccoy.peters.homeunix.org: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) (i386/1 cpu) on openbsd - 3.6 using cc version 2.95.3 20010125 ...

Steve
Dec 10, 2004 at 1:23 pm
Dec 14, 2004 at 4:56 pm

7	[PATCH] add -I../lib to VMS build to find Config_heavy.pl

This does for vms/descrip_mms.template what the Unix build does for the scripts in utils and pod, which is run them with ../lib in @INC so they can locate Config_heavy.pl when it gets loaded at run ...

Craig A. Berry
Dec 1, 2004 at 1:24 pm
Dec 2, 2004 at 4:11 pm

6	[perl #33185] UTF-8 string substitution corrupts memory

# New Ticket Created by sroy@search-box.com # Please include the string: [perl #33185] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Sroy @ search-box . com
Dec 25, 2004 at 9:50 pm
Mar 26, 2005 at 9:56 pm

6	[perl #32967] More B bugs: svref_2object

# New Ticket Created by Alexey Tourbin # Please include the string: [perl #32967] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Alexey Tourbin
Dec 8, 2004 at 9:07 pm
Jan 21, 2005 at 2:36 pm

6	[patch perlapi doc] sv_magic

Save myself and others the lost time, trying to first discover and then figure out why sv_magic silently ignores additional magic of the same 'how'. --- sv.c.orig 2004-12-18 11:06:55.893699086 -0500 ...

Stas Bekman
Dec 18, 2004 at 4:09 pm
Dec 24, 2004 at 9:24 am

6	Re: [perl #33106] perlbug AutoReply: perl does not warn if the argument eq "NaN"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, Maybe because my Perl seems to think that "NaN" == 0: perl -wle '$a = "NaN" != 0 ? 1 : 0; print $a' perl -wle '$a = "NaN" == 0 ? 1 : 0; print $a' 1 perl -wle ...

Tels
Dec 19, 2004 at 1:39 pm
Dec 23, 2004 at 4:44 pm

6	Breadth first inheritance?

Howdy... I'm sufferring from MI headaches, which would all go away if search into ISA could be breadth first. I have FishStick Food Whatever Fish Animal and the normal super path for FishStick is ...

Yuval Kogman
Dec 14, 2004 at 1:29 pm
Dec 16, 2004 at 6:21 pm

5	[perl #33159] Setuid script not plain file -error message

# New Ticket Created by erik@vontaene.de # Please include the string: [perl #33159] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Erik @ vontaene . de
Dec 22, 2004 at 9:43 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 3:43 pm

5	[perl #33571] Segmentation fault while parsing a malformed code

# New Ticket Created by Somanos Sar # Please include the string: [perl #33571] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Somanos Sar
Dec 28, 2004 at 8:21 am
May 29, 2005 at 7:32 pm

5	how to add more than one user magic of the same type with perl 5.6.x

We have a situation where we need to add more than one PERL_MAGIC_ext magic to an object. sv_magicext which allows to do that is available starting from 5.8.x+. What do I do if I need to support ...

Stas Bekman
Dec 25, 2004 at 12:53 am
Apr 4, 2005 at 11:07 pm

5	[PATCH] doc SVt_PVLV <=> SVt_PVGV change version in B.pm

The reordering of SVt_ flags hasn't gone (and shouldn't go) into maint... say so in the B pod. --- perl/ext/B/B.pm.orig 2004-12-14 04:45:41.000000000 -0800 +++ perl/ext/B/B.pm 2004-12-19 ...

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Dec 20, 2004 at 7:57 am
Jan 21, 2005 at 10:52 am

5	Perl setlocale?

The following message has gone unanswered on ActiveState's Win32 perl user's group. Of course, maybe it is the holidays. But I wondered if maybe a Windows porter could point me in the right direction ...

Glenn Linderman
Dec 31, 2004 at 4:38 am
Jan 2, 2005 at 11:48 am

5	On the subject of CPAN indexing and the wrong modules being presented for upgrade

As part of the discussion Stas and I have been having, I ran the CPAN 'r' command on a random box I have, to see what modules would be offered for upgrade. All of them were sensible (i.e. standalone ...

John Peacock
Dec 24, 2004 at 12:37 am
Dec 24, 2004 at 5:19 am

5	[perl #33128] Here-document length bug

# New Ticket Created by dmcallis@es.com # Please include the string: [perl #33128] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Dmcallis @ es . com
Dec 20, 2004 at 9:38 pm
Dec 22, 2004 at 6:23 pm

5	Security patch from Debian?

I had a peek last night at the change log of Debian's perl. Saw some security fixes I don't remember having seen come back to p5p. ...

Michael G Schwern
Dec 2, 2004 at 2:05 am
Dec 15, 2004 at 5:12 pm

5	[perl #32983] fail upgrade from perl 5.0 to perl 5.8

# New Ticket Created by chenglim@commontown.com # Please include the string: [perl #32983] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Chenglim @ commontown . com
Dec 10, 2004 at 1:50 am
Dec 13, 2004 at 1:02 am

5	Patch to README.win32 distributed with 5.8.6 for building under .net / MSVC7 (free)

Hello, below is a patch to the README.win32 that changes some of the description on how to build with the free MSVC compiler distributed with .net. The three major points are: 1) Using a batch file ...

Max Maischein
Dec 5, 2004 at 6:30 pm
Dec 8, 2004 at 5:44 pm

5	Perl5 Bug Summary

http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html Generated at Mon Dec 6 13:52:10 2004 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Total Issues * New Issues ...

Robert Spier
Dec 6, 2004 at 4:35 pm
Dec 8, 2004 at 3:30 am

5	[ANNOUNCE] XSLoader 0.03_01

http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/XSLoader/tags/VERSION=0.03_01/ or svn://svn.schwern.org/CPAN/XSLoader/tags/VERSION=0.03_01/ or http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/XSLoader-0.03_01.tar.gz or a CPAN ...

Michael G Schwern
Dec 7, 2004 at 12:43 am
Dec 7, 2004 at 11:33 am

5	[PATCH] Makefile.SH: de-parallelise mktables

I seemed to be extremely lucky in getting "gmake -j3" to stomp all over the place when doing the "mktables" step: either two or three mktables getting invoked and trying to run simultaneously, ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Dec 1, 2004 at 5:21 pm
Dec 1, 2004 at 7:21 pm

4	[perl #33186] Testing for taint and utf8 on magic values

# New Ticket Created by perl-5.8.0@ton.iguana.be # Please include the string: [perl #33186] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Perl-5 . 8 . 0 @ ton . iguana . be
Dec 25, 2004 at 11:52 pm
Apr 30, 2012 at 3:47 am

4	[perl #32840] $^R value lost in (?:...)? constructs

# New Ticket Created by david@landgren.net # Please include the string: [perl #32840] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

David @ landgren . net
Dec 4, 2004 at 10:52 pm
Nov 18, 2006 at 1:04 pm

4	[perl #32913] Make Install Errors

# New Ticket Created by angelom@niagarafallshotels.com # Please include the string: [perl #32913] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Angelom @ niagarafallshotels . com
Dec 6, 2004 at 8:33 pm
Dec 23, 2004 at 3:35 pm

4

//w

In a bust of boredom, I quickly coded the following hack. It adds a new flag, "w", to // and s///, to match only whole words. Or, more precisely, it adds \b at the beginning and to the end of the ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Dec 16, 2004 at 6:30 pm
Dec 17, 2004 at 12:35 pm

4	[ANNOUNCE] Test::Simple/More/Builder 0.54

http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/Test-Simple/trunk or svn://svn.schwern.org/CPAN/Test-Simple/trunk or http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.54.tar.gz or a CPAN near you. This release is ...

Michael G Schwern
Dec 15, 2004 at 12:08 pm
Dec 15, 2004 at 1:43 pm

4	[perl #2215] redo undefines variables declared like while (my $i ...) { redo; }

This does not appear to be a bug. Quoting "Programming Perl, Second Edition", "The redo command restarts the loop block without evaluating the conditional again." So, when it re-enters the block, the ...

Steve Peters via RT
Dec 8, 2004 at 3:50 am
Dec 8, 2004 at 7:06 pm

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