Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <38BE0783.3D27966D@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 01:17:39 -0500 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com Subject: Re: [ANN] perl5.5.660 References: <38B89AEA DOT 2FFB9F85 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FWIW, the problems described below were fixed with the Feb 28 snapshot. That includes the 100% usage problem and the weird configure failures when building. --Chuck "Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > perl5.5.660 is now available at > http://cygutils.netpedia.net/V1.1/perl-5.5.660/ You will also find a few > precompiled modules at that location. > > This might be the last beta before perl5.6 is released, so please bang > on it if you've the inclination. I've found one problem already that I > couldn't figure out: attempting to execute any routine from the libnet > module causes perl to dump core immediately. If anybody's got any ideas > about how to fix that, please let me know. > > perl5.5.660 was built using the following external libraries from the > cygutils archive: > libcrypt > cygipc-1.05 > db-2.7.7 > gdbm-1.8.0-1 > and with the following environment settings. ntsec was not enabled. > CYGWIN=binmode tty ntea > built and installed by a non-administrator user > > Anyway, here are the perl harness results: > > Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > io/pipe.t 1 256 15 12 80.00% 7-15 > lib/glob-basic. 9 7 77.78% 3-9 > lib/io_pipe.t 10 2 20.00% 9-10 > lib/io_poll.t 8 1 12.50% 4 > lib/odbm.t 64 1 1.56% 2 > lib/posix.t 27 3 11.11% 8-10 > op/grent.t 1 1 100.00% 1 > op/magic.t 35 2 5.71% 3, 5 > op/taint.t 149 11 7.38% 1, 3, 31, 142-149 > pragma/warnings 348 1 0.29% 117 > 4 tests and 57 subtests skipped. > Failed 10/234 test scripts, 95.73% okay. 25/11679 subtests failed, > 99.79% okay. > > --Chuck > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > FWIW, I also built and tested 5.5.660 with ntsec ON. Here are those > results > > Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > base/rs.t 13 3328 14 14 100.00% 1-14 > io/pipe.t 1 256 15 12 80.00% 7-15 > lib/dirhand.t 5 1 20.00% 3 > lib/filecache.t 255 65280 1 1 100.00% 1 > lib/filepath.t 255 65280 4 4 100.00% 1-4 > lib/glob-basic. 9 1 11.11% 2 > lib/io_dir.t 10 1 10.00% 3 > lib/io_pipe.t 10 2 20.00% 9-10 > lib/io_poll.t 8 1 12.50% 4 > lib/io_unix.t 0 15 5 4 80.00% 2-5 > lib/ipc_sysv.t 16 16 100.00% 1-16 > lib/ndbm.t 13 3328 64 50 78.12% 1-2, 4, 9, 19-64 > lib/odbm.t 64 62 96.88% 3-64 > lib/posix.t 27 3 11.11% 8-10 > op/grent.t 1 1 100.00% 1 > op/magic.t 35 2 5.71% 3, 5 > op/stat.t 58 8 13.79% 18-21, 26-27, 57-58 > op/taint.t 149 3 2.01% 1, 3, 31 > pragma/warnings 348 1 0.29% 117 > 4 tests and 44 subtests skipped. > Failed 19/234 test scripts, 91.88% okay. 171/11679 subtests failed, > 98.54% okay. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com