Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:01:02 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1 In-Reply-To: <200301011717.h01HHZB19269@delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Richard Dawe wrote: > Release 2 of the DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1 is now available. > > This release fixes inconsistencies in the handling of environment variables > via the %ENV associative array. Previously the environment variable names were > treated case-insensitively most of the time, but case-sensitively when > accessed via %ENV. Now the environment variable names are treated > case-sensitively in all cases. (DOS supports case-specific environment > variable names, although COMMAND.COM always capitalises them, when you use > 'set'.) What about the problem with return status of programs invoked by Perl--was that fixed as well? That problem annoys me quite a bit each time I need to run the GNU Make's test suite: it causes one of the tests to consistently fail. (Ask me if you want the details.)