X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1293074472.184.1.camel@YAAKOV04> References: <20101216190751.GA3017@ford.loewis.de> <786EBDA1AC46254B813E200779E7AD360149EE47@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> <1293074472.184.1.camel@YAAKOV04> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:19:36 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ATTN: Perl maintainer - RE: Problem with Perl/Tk and Pixmap From: Reini Urban To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 2010/12/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X): > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 20:18 +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >> I hear. >> Known problem with certain XS modules. >> >> With -4 I had to recompile core and all XS modules and apparently some >> old modules >> are not binary compatible anymore, although the configuration did not ch= ange. >> Only the environment did change. > > Could you clarify? =A0AFAIK it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild all > modules for each point release or rebuild of perl. Of course. I didn't find any such binary API problem in my tests. I usually test perl for weeks until I release it. But soon after I released it, we found out that some old XS modules did not= work anymore and had to be recompiled. I haven't yet found out why exactly. Debugging on cygwin is certainly difficult compared to linux, where I do have access to all stack params and symbols in shared libs, and can reliably set breakpoints in shared libs. Even if I use gdb-7 it does not work most of the time. --=20 Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple