Hallo Nicholas, Am Sonntag, 3. August 2003 um 18:54 schriebst du:
> X-Post from cygwin-apps... >> If someone is interested to help, start with release candidate 3 for >> perl-5.8.1: >> http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/0813206&mode=thread&tid=6 In the meantime is RC4 released, from the announcement: " http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1-RC4.tar.gz I could find no law against having more than three Release Candidates. Perhaps more importantly, the various module updates warranted a fourth one, see http://www.iki.fi/jhi/perl-5.8.1-RC4.html Test extensively yadda yadda 5.8.1 as soon as possible mumble mumble." See also my posting where I described the visible problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00101.html > Perl-5.8 is not working at all on WinME and, despite my best efforts, I > am unable to debug the problem because the "race" condition happens > before the dubugger can hook. As Jason points out in the release notes, > even after being rebased, Python cannot pass any of the threads or ^^^^^^ Python also cannot be built with Cygwin 1.5.1? > forking tests. I'm out of idea, so as a minor representative of people > who may still be using WinME, I kindly request that you provide a rebuid > of perl-5.6.x againt 1.5.1 (still marked as previous of course). Hmm, previous && test version at the same time, I doubt that this is possible. <flame> Why not upgrading to W2K or XP? You can get W2K really cheap at second hand shops;) Last time I was at microsfot.com I saw that they don't support Internet Explorer 5 and 5.5 any longer. That means that the support for Win98/ME will also be dropped soon as it already happens now for Win95 (you cannot install IE6 on W95). I cannot believe that there are some users out there who still work with their first, ten years old, Pentium I, 90Mhz box which cannot run W2K because their 4 GB harddisk is too small and they cannot upgrade the hardware because the BIOS is too old to recognize some hardisk larger than 4 GB and are really happy that they could install Win98 because it gives you the look and feel of a real system. </flame> OTOH, rebuilding perl-5.6.1 will hopefully be not a problem, I have not tried that yet, will do this later too. > Also, for 5.8.1, can you turn back on MakeMaker's bzipping of manpages, > like you had during the 5.8.0RC's? You might also considier targeting > /usr/share/man, as that is what we are hoping to transition to... 1. IIRC, I compressed the manpages manually, but if there is a feature in perl that allows to do this automagically, I can turn it on. 2. I thought we allow /usr/man and /usr/share/man to coexist? And: $ ( cd /usr/man ; du -hs ) 9.9M . $ ( cd /usr/man ; df -h . ) Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on H: 60G 29G 31G 49% / And: Hardisks are really cheap, 120GB -> $100. And if that all doesn't help: $ (cd /usr/man ; find . -name "*.3pm" | xargs bzip2 -9 ) At least for the perl modules manpages it is easy to maintain this manually. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/
