Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/31/16:43:29
So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:30 PM
> To: Rolf Campbell
> Subject: Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2
>
>
> Hallo Rolf,
>
> Am Montag, 31. März 2003 um 19:47 schriebst du:
>
> > Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >> perl-5.8.0-2 release has been uploaded to sourceware
> >> -- it should be on the mirrors soon.
> >>
>
> > Several problems with this version. A bunch of my scripts have
> > stopped
> > working, and when I tried to figure out why, I got some
> very strange
> > behavior from the debugger.
>
> > Try this (I tried it in both rxvt & 'dos box' with same results):
> > 1) run "perl -d"
> > 2) type "print;"
> > 3) hit Ctrl+D
> > 4) hit Enter
> > 5) hit Enter
>
> > When I do this, step #4 does NOTHING (and by nothing I mean: the key
> > made a little click sound when I hit it, but there was no
> other proof
> > that I hit the key). It seems that this perl needs 2 enter
> keys in a
> > row to recognize one. I tried hitting
> 'a<enter>a<enter>a<enter>', and
> > only 'aaa' showed on the screen (all on the same line).
>
> This is a known 'feature', try
> $ export PERLIO=perlio
> or
> $ export PERLIO=raw
> before running a script or this test.
>
>
> > Also, when I ran cygcheck, I got:
> > cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 53
>
> How do you run cygcheck?
>
>
> Gerrit
> --
> =^..^=
>
>
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