Hallo, Now after perl-5.8.1 was finally released, I've made a debugging version available at first. This will not be distributed via the Cygwin mirrors and is not installable via setup.exe.
But you can fetch it from the CPAN mirror which is nearest to you: $CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/CHECKSUMS $CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/perl_debug-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2 $CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/perl_debug-5.8.1-2-src.tar.bz2 $CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/perl_debug-5.8.1-2-srctree.tar.bz2 where $CPAN is the mirror you select from the list of 238 mirrors here: http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html Extract the perl_debug-5.8.1-2-srctree.tar.bz2 from the Cygwin root directory, it will create a tree under /tmp/perl/... Do the same with perl_debug-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2, it will install into /usr/bin/..., /usr/lib/perl5/... and /usr/share/doc/perl-5.8.1/... The perl_debug-5.8.1-2-src.tar.bz2 contains all the source packages and scripts which are needed to rebuild from scratch. This release is mainly for Nicholas Wourms and other Win98/Cygwin/Perl users who reported problems with Cygwin Perl releases and who may be interested in debugging the problems with Perl under Win98 like systems. Please try this first release of the final perl-5.8.1 and report back if it works for you or not. Some technical information: It is compiled with gcc-3.3.1 under cygwin-1.5.5, linked against libcrypt and libutil, some modules are linked against zlib, libdb4 and libgdbm4, I used the latest binutils. I'm interested in: i.e. - are your favourite modules building? - is it possible to build modules using e.g. gcc-3.2? - is it possible to run /usr/bin/cpan to install modules (i.e with Win98SE/WinME)? - your favourite topic here ... 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/
