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Subject: RE: Updated: perl-5.8.7-2
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:51:16 +0100
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From: "Adye, TJ \(Tim\)" <T DOT J DOT Adye AT rl DOT ac DOT uk>
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Hi Gerrit,

Thanks for the Perl update.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to fix the problem I reported earlier
("Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork").  My test script worked fine
after "rebaseall", but when I reinstalled Cygwin from scratch (including
Perl 5.8.7-2) it dies with

C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (3772): *** unable to remap
C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\vendor_perl\5.8\cygwin\auto\Win32\Shortcut\Shortcut.
dll to same address as parent(0x950000) != 0xBF0000
     17 [main] perl 3448 fork_parent: child 3772 died waiting for dll
loading

The addresses are now different, if that's any consolation (previously
it reported parent(0xBF0000) != 0x1110000).

Presumably "rebaseall" will fix it again, but I'll keep the pristine
Cygwin installation for further tests if that's helpful.

Apologies if I was being overoptimistic and this release (alone) wasn't
expected to fix my problem.

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-announce-owner AT cygwin DOT com On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
> Sent: 10 July 2005 02:13
> To: cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Updated: perl-5.8.7-2
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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