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From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Perl 5.8.8 uploaded.
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 05:45:43 +0200
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  This is a port of Perl 5.8.8 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  The changes are documented by the diffs file stored in the /djgpp subdir.
  The various changes performed have no user visible impact but are required
  due to the mayor changes in the perl sources compared with the last port
  of perl 5.6.1.
  The sources are not configured at all, only the patch has been applied.
  If you want to recompile the suorces run the following command sequence
  from the top srcdir of the source tree (gnu/perl-5.8-8):
    cd djgpp
    configure -des
    make
   [set DESTDIR=/some/dir]
    make install
    make check
  The make command produces everything.  The set DESTDIR is optional.
  If not supplied the products are installed in /dev/env/DJDIR.
  If you decide to run the testsuite, you will have to **DEINSTALL** your
  previous perl package and install the new products or the testsuite will
  fail.  I have configured and compiled perl 5.8.8 with stock 2.03 and
  beta 2.04.  The screen output for the configuration, compilation and
  the testsuite run has been stored in the files 20[34]configure.txt,
  20[34]make.txt 20[34]makecheck.txt located in the /djgpp subdir.
  98% of the testsuite passes.  Neitherless it was not possible to me to
  get file locking of beta 2.04 working (made the dos box always crash on
  Win98SE and WinXP home), so I have disabled it at all.  For stock 2.03
  there is no file locking so there was no problem.  Loading precompiled
  bytecode also always fails with SIGSEGV and out of memory message.
  SIGALARM for a high resolution timer module also does not work correctly.
  All these are issues that must be analysed and cleared.  The source of
  trouble may be the perl code of the modules or the libc code.  Unfortunatly
  my perl skill are to modest to clear all these questions, so some contribution
  of some perl programmer in the djgpp user audience will be very welcome or
  this things will probably never been fixed.  Again you have my patch and
  20[34]*.txt files that show what I have done or what I may have done wrong.

  ** DO NOT MIX THE PERL 5.6.1 PORT AND THIS ONE.  **

  Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.



  The binaries and surces can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and
  mirrors as(timestamp 2007-05-12):

    Perl 5.8.8 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/perl588b.zip

    Perl 5.8.8 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/perl588s.zip


  For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced
  a second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
  at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2007-05-12):

    Perl 5.8.8 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/perl588b.zip



  Send perl specific bug reports to perl 5 porter mailing list
  after having subscribed at <perl5-porters-subscribe AT perl DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

    Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>