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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:12:48 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.7-2
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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:
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