Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990306184033.2269.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 10:40:33 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Compiling Perl under b20.1 To: Charles Wilson , Sebastien Barre Cc: Cygwin Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---Charles Wilson wrote: 8< > Now, all three of your patches address problems I didn't see; the main difference > between us being binary vs. text mounts. If that is the case, should these tests > be skipped for all cygwin (binary and text mount) or should the tests be fixed so > that they work for both binary and text mounts? I'm not sure if the second option > means hacking the test scripts, or hacking perl itself. > 8< IMHO, it seems that the easiest fix for this would be for perl to always open a script file in text mode processing. Any file that can be potentially created by a human with an editor should be opened for text mode processing. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com