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From: Neil Lunn <neillunn AT gunz DOT com DOT au>
To: "'gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de'" <gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de>, david AT carter DOT net
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Perl in cygwin?
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 18:00:20 +1000 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: david AT carter DOT net
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Perl in cygwin?
> 
> 
> david AT carter DOT net schrieb am 2001-06-05, 12:52:
> 
> > On Tue, 05 June 2001, "Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It's still classified as an experimental package.  
> > > 
> > 
> > Ack! Are there problems I'm likely to run into if I 
> > downloaded the sources from cpan.org & built on cygwin?
> 
> I build perl-5.7.1 once a week, it works.
> Don't know exactly how it is with 5.6.1.
> 
> Better you get the Perl sources from cygwin with the patches
> needed applied by E. Fifer. There is else an additional README
> with some cygwin specific hints.

There are no patches. This is this standard distribution of perl as is
generally implied by the fact that that bleadperl builds OOTB. For anyone
looking for "compatibilty" with ActiveState perl, the best option is to
apply the patch supplied by activestate to the standard perl source
distribution. (This actually fixes some bugs that were released in 5.6.1).

--Neil


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