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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:31:52 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
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To: "Michael W. J. West" <Michael-W.J.West@usa.dupont.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.5 and libwin32 0.191-1 incompatibility
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Michael W. J. West schrieb:
> I recently followed the advice at
> http://fairtomiddlin.blogspot.com/2004/09/cygwin.html
> and noting:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-01/msg00011.html
> 
> and apparently got libwin32-0.191 patched and handcrafted to build for 
> perl 5.8.5 on cygwin, pass many tests, and install. It ran about 250 
> tests and then noted that I am not on a Windows network, and stopped 
> running tests. That was "good enough for me" (TM).  After install,

> I have also produced a patch file that will apply all the changes 
> necessary to the original libwin32-0.191 , but it is almost 7 megs and 
> gzips to about 2 megs.  I can email it to interested parties, as well as

Great.
Please send me the bzip2 patch. I will try to make a package then.
(After talking to Rafael)
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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