Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:07:08 +0200
From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h DOT m DOT brand AT hccnet DOT nl>
To: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
Subject: Re: New perl package
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, Michael Schwern <schwern AT pobox DOT com>
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On Thu 11 Oct 2001 15:09, Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be> wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 13:34, Laszlo Molnar wrote:
> > > > I'm currently uploading new source & binary packages for
> > > > perl 5.6.1 to DJ's server.
> > > The files are still in the incoming directory on DJ's server. The reason is
> > > that with Bash 2.05 I want to see if I can build Perl and instead of trying
> > > with an old verison I thought I should use the latest and could't find them
> > > on a simtel mirror.
> > 
> > Please run the test suite too. The only bash version which works for me
> > for both building and testing perl is 1.14.7.2(!).
> 
> I did.
> I needed to patch a few tests (6 or so); some made wrong assumptions
> about $0, and some didn't skip a test while they should (usually, they
> skipped only on win32 & os2); after that, all tests passed.
> 
> Strangely though, running 'perl harness' for detailed test results
> completely freaked out (several crashes (suggesting a nesting problem?)
> and even rebooting the machine at one point) (this was under WinME).

Please contact Michael Schwern <schwern AT pobox DOT com> about this

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