Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F2D3E4E.7020508@netscape.net> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 12:54:38 -0400 From: Nicholas Wourms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23? References: <20030802152342 DOT GA17734 AT redhat DOT com> <801335991093 DOT 20030802235956 AT familiehaase DOT de> In-Reply-To: <801335991093.20030802235956@familiehaase.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 130.127.122.186 X-Post from cygwin-apps... gp AT familiehaase DOT de wrote: > Hallo Christopher, > > Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 um 17:23 schriebst du: > > >>I'd like to shoot for making 1.5.x the current release on >>2003-08-23. Are there any obstacles to that goal? > > > I am still unable to build Perl and I haven't found the problem yet. > I'm seeking for volunteers to help tracking down this problem. > > If someone is interested to help, start with release candidate 3 for > perl-5.8.1: > http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/0813206&mode=thread&tid=6 > > Gerrit, Perl-5.8 is not working at all on WinME and, despite my best efforts, I am unable to debug the problem because the "race" condition happens before the dubugger can hook. As Jason points out in the release notes, even after being rebased, Python cannot pass any of the threads or forking tests. I'm out of idea, so as a minor representative of people who may still be using WinME, I kindly request that you provide a rebuid of perl-5.6.x againt 1.5.1 (still marked as previous of course). Also, for 5.8.1, can you turn back on MakeMaker's bzipping of manpages, like you had during the 5.8.0RC's? You might also considier targeting /usr/share/man, as that is what we are hoping to transition to... Cheers -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/