Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/29/10:19:03
Perl has been updated to 5.8.7-3
NEWS
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This is a bugfix release:
- Test::Harness problem when running testsuites for modules from
the command line where every second test breaks, this should
work ok now.
- Using the system malloc() now because the perl malloc()
implementation caused perl to crash when more than 384 MB memory
is used
OLDER NEWS
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- Now using --enable-auto-image-base to link DLL and extensions.
This should address the problem with loading extension DLLs in
subprocesses.
- New builtin functions:
Cygwin::winpid_to_pid, Cygwin::pid_to_winpid
- Configured with -Dusesitecustomize. See also "-f" in perlrun:
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlrun.pod#%2Df
Extensions already included in this distribution:
Compress-Zlib-1.34
Compress-Bzip2-2.08
IO-Zlib-1.04
IO-String-1.06
Archive-Tar-1.24
MD5-2.03
Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203
Net-Telnet-3.03
TermReadKey-2.30
XML-Parser-2.34
Perl 5.8.7 announcement:
http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2005/perl-5.8.7.html
5.8.7 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various
minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perl587delta.pod for
the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the
build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early
to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly.
DESCRIPTION
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As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before
using any new product in your production environment.
Canonical website: http://www.perl.org/
UPDATE
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up
'perl' from the 'Interpreters' category, if you install it for the
first time, click on the 'skip' field next to 'perl' until '5.8.7-3'
is displayed.
DOWNLOAD:
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Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need
to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to
you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
QUESTIONS:
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