Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 08:33:16 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <113289078562.20020603083316@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: with setup.ini now: perl-5.8.0-RC1 (first release candidate) is available In-Reply-To: <122265289986.20020603015647@familiehaase.de> References: <147264660591 DOT 20020603014618 AT familiehaase DOT de> <122265289986 DOT 20020603015647 AT familiehaase DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Gerrit, Nicholas has helped me out and created a setup.ini file, so you can fetch perl & db4 with setup.exe now, setup.ini URL's: http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/ http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/ Old announcement: > Some direct links to the mirror too:-) >> 2002-06-02 >> The first Cygwin release of the first perl-5.8 release candidate is >> available for testing. >> == > Fetch the Cygwin version here: > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/ > Or from this mirror (many thanks to Nicholas Wourms for providing it): > http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/perl/ >> == >> I linked this version against Berkeley DB 4.0.14, you want to rebuild >> Perl from source yourself if you want it without DB4, with DB3 or DB2 >> instead of DB4, or you need to install DB 4 too: > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/db/ > This one is the correct link to the mirror > http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/db4/ >> (Should work with an existing DB 4 installation too) >> REALLY IMPORTANT: >> ================= >> If you have already another DB version installed please unpack this >> package into a separate directory and copy just cygdb-4.0.dll to >> somewhere in your path. The dll's can coexist without problems. >> To rebuild Perl from source any DB version should work (or none). >> Otherwise, if unpackaged from / it will *clobber* the db headers in >> /usr/include and libdb.a/.la & libdb_cxx.a/.la symlinks in /usr/lib! >> == >> Please take some minutes to read the Perl RC1 announcement > READ: > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/perl-5.8.0-RC1.html >> while you fetch the binary or source or all tarballs. > Perl-5.8.0-RC1: > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/perl-5.8.0-RC1-1-src.tar.bz2 > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/perl-5.8.0-RC1-1.tar.bz2 > Mirror: > http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/perl/perl-5.8.0-RC1-1-src.tar.bz2 > http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/perl/perl-5.8.0-RC1-1.tar.bz2 > DB-4.0.14: > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/db/db-4.0.14-3-src.tar.bz2 > http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/db/db-4.0.14-3.tar.bz2 > Mirror: > http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/db-4/db-4.0.14-3-src.tar.bz2 > http://today.clemson.edu/cygwin/db-4/db-4.0.14-3.tar.bz2 >> NOTE: >> ===== >> The server in Cologne has only limited bandwidth (144kbit), so if >> someone is able to fetch the tarballs and can provide a mirror >> please do so and tell us about the URL in reply to this mail, >> others please watch out for replies with mirror offerings and please >> make use of them if there are some, thanks;) >> ===== >> The Cygwin Perl source package contains the original source tarball: >> The size of the original source file is 10913451 bytes and the MD5 >> checksum for the file is >> f595a07df28eb9e40d4d27281a9b37a9 perl-5.8.0-RC1.tgz >> == >> If you want to build from source and have already downloaded >> the original tarball you may fetch just my build scripts >> (see URL to fetch original in the Announcement, link above): >> My scripts: >> =========== >> http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/perl-5.8.0-RC1-scripts.tgz >> Use my scripts: >> =============== >> - unpack it in an empty directory together with the RC1 tarball >> - unpack the RC1 tarball >> - call ./build.sh to ./Configure, make and install perl-5.8.0-RC1 >> - modify the script if you don't want to install it or if you want >> other flags or: look into the script and execute the various >> commands manually >> - the makepkg.sh script is for making dist tarballs, please note >> that this will also install Perl into the final location and will >> clobber your existing perl.exe et. al. >> == >> Please test extensively. >> Your help in testing the upcoming perl 5.8.0 is much appreciated. >> == >> The Cygwin Perl RC1 source tarball contains also my buildlogs. >> There are two or three tests failing for me today... alarm.t >> fails randomly, fs.t and stat.t are failing probably because I >> am building on a shared netdrive today, it should be possible >> to get test runs without failings (only on NTFS!). >> == >> And: >> ==== >> THIS IS A REAL NEW PERL RELEASE THAT IS BINARY INCOMPATIBLE WITH ANY >> PREVIOUS PERL RELEASE. THIS MEANS THAT YOUR OLD EXTENSIONS (.xs code, >> those Perl modules requiring a C compiler) WILL NOT WORK AND WILL HAVE >> TO BE RECOMPILED. (Pure Perl modules should continue working.) >> INSTALLING THIS PERL RELEASE WILL OVERWRITE YOUR CURRENT PERL RELEASE. >> (For example, /usr/bin/perl will become Perl 5.8.0.) >> DO NOT INSTALL THIS INTO PRODUCTION USE UNLESS YOU REALLY MEAN IT. >> ==== >> I got also this note during Storable compilation which may be of >> additional interest: >> You appear to have a perl configured to use 64 bit integers in its scalar >> variables. If you have existing data written with an earlier version of >> Storable which this version of Storable refuses to load with a >> Byte order is not compatible >> error, then please read the section "64 bit data in perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1" >> in the Storable documentation for instructions on how to read your data. >> (You can find the documentation at the end of Storable.pm in POD format) >> Have fun! >> Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/