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 Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:12:48 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.7-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perl has been updated to 5.8.7-2 - Now using --enable-auto-image-base to link DLL and extensions. This should address the problem with loading extension DLLs in subprocesses. NEWS ==== - New builtin functions: Cygwin::winpid_to_pid, Cygwin::pid_to_winpid - Configured with -Dusesitecustomize. See also "-f" in perlrun: http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlrun.pod#%2Df Extensions already included in this distribution: Compress-Zlib-1.34 Compress-Bzip2-2.08 IO-Zlib-1.04 IO-String-1.06 Archive-Tar-1.24 MD5-2.03 Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 Net-Telnet-3.03 TermReadKey-2.30 XML-Parser-2.34 Perl 5.8.7 announcement: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2005/perl-5.8.7.html 5.8.7 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perl587delta.pod for the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly. DESCRIPTION =========== As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment. Canonical website: http://www.perl.org/ UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'perl' from the 'Interpreters' category, if you install it for the first time, click on the 'skip' field next to 'perl' until '5.8.7-2' is displayed. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Gerrit P. Haase -- =^..^= -- 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/