Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39CA7DF8.3C897630@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:30:32 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Roche CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygutils perl-5.6.0: symlink? mod_perl? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom Roche wrote: > > I work on a web-based project using Perl and Apache. We have committed > to running on Solaris, Linux, and NT4/5, and so far, we do, even with > mod_perl. We've encountered platform differences with rand, sprintf, > etc, but have been able to find portable workarounds. > > We've got some new code that uses Perl's symlink, which unfortunately > is not supported (by CPAN Perl anyway, per perlport) on win32. However > I'm aware of Cygwin's symlink hack, so I'm wondering: > > Does the Cygutils perl-5.6.0 support symlink? Yep. The symlink regression test is io/fs.t test #2. /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.0/t > ./perl harness io/fs.t io/fs...............ok All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=29, 3 wallclock secs ( 0.70 cusr + 1.59 csys = 2.29 CPU) > Alternatively, if anyone > knows of a Perl module that does soft links portably, I'd like to > know. > > If cygutils perl-5.6.0 does symlink: has anyone run it under Apache > with mod_perl? If so, how? Is there a Cygwin build of Apache? I didn't > see one at > > http://cygutils.netpedia.net/V1.1/index.html > Take a look at the cygwin porting project: http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ They've got an apache port, but I don't know about mod_perl. --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com