Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/18/19:03:56
Hi,
Just to let people know that the Perl 5.8.0 binary distribution
installed with setup for the Cygwin 1.5.5 distribution has trouble
with the Convert::ASN1 package. It wouldn't pass the "make test"
and the problem appeared to be Perl reporting something other than
Inf for POSIX::HUGE_VAL. I reported a bug with the Convert::ASN1
package on CPAN. For details, see Bug 4121 at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=4121.
An indicator of trouble is:
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$ perl -e 'use POSIX;print POSIX::HUGE_VAL, "\n";'
-6.77154008269804e-229
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It should be something like:
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$ perl -e 'use POSIX;print POSIX::HUGE_VAL, "\n";'
Inf
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It appears that the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 package that Cygwin 1.5.5
installs was compiled with GCC 3.2 while GCC 3.3.1 comes with
the 1.5.5 distribution. Recompiling Perl 5.8.0 using the
perl-5.8.0-5-src.tar.bz2 source package resulted in Convert::ASN1
passing its tests.
Here's what the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 binary package from Cygwin 1.5.5
says:
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$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=cygwin, osvers=1.3.22(0.7832), archname=cygwin-multi-64int
uname='cygwin_nt-5.0 ismene 1.3.22(0.7832) 2003-03-18 09:20 i586 unknown
unknown cygwin '
config_args='-de -Dmksymlinks -Dusemultiplicity -Duse64bitint
-Doptimize=-O3 -Dman3ext=3pm'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.2 20020927 (prerelease)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=4
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
libs=-lgdbm -ldb -lcrypt -lutil -lgdbm_compat
perllibs=-lcrypt -lutil -lgdbm_compat
libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s'
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
Built under cygwin
Compiled at Aug 29 2003 12:06:59
%ENV:
CYGWIN=""
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
.
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Compiled from source, Perl 5.8.0 says:
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$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=cygwin, osvers=1.5.5(0.9432), archname=cygwin-multi-64int
uname='cygwin_nt-5.0 baktu 1.5.5(0.9432) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
unknown cygwin '
config_args='-de -Dmksymlinks -Dusemultiplicity -Duse64bitint
-Doptimize=-O3 -Dman3ext=3pm'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.1 (cygming special)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib
libs=-lgdbm -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat
perllibs=-lcrypt -lgdbm_compat
libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s'
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
Built under cygwin
Compiled at Oct 18 2003 09:42:22
%ENV:
CYGWIN=""
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
.
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I'm not sure what differences there are between the versions of
GCC used but I noticed that the lseeksize is different with
GCC 3.2 saying 4 while GCC 3.3.1 says 8.
I didn't try the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 binary package with Cygwin
1.3.22 which it was compiled under. Nor did I try the
perl-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2 binary packae from Cygwin 1.5.5.
While the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 binary package does run under
Cygwin 1.5.5, other Perl modules may not fare as well.
Russ
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