Hallo Russell, you wrote: > An indicator of trouble is:
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > $ perl -e 'use POSIX;print POSIX::HUGE_VAL, "\n";' > -6.77154008269804e-229 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > It should be something like: > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > $ perl -e 'use POSIX;print POSIX::HUGE_VAL, "\n";' > Inf > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > It appears that the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 package that Cygwin 1.5.5 > installs was compiled with GCC 3.2 while GCC 3.3.1 comes with > the 1.5.5 distribution. Recompiling Perl 5.8.0 using the > perl-5.8.0-5-src.tar.bz2 source package resulted in Convert::ASN1 > passing its tests. [...] > I'm not sure what differences there are between the versions of > GCC used but I noticed that the lseeksize is different with > GCC 3.2 saying 4 while GCC 3.3.1 says 8. > I didn't try the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 binary package with Cygwin > 1.3.22 which it was compiled under. Nor did I try the > perl-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2 binary packae from Cygwin 1.5.5. > While the perl-5.8.0-5.tar.bz2 binary package does run under > Cygwin 1.5.5, other Perl modules may not fare as well. Many thanks for the detailed report. One more point for 5.8.1 which is already available, 5.8.1-2 seems to return the correct value with your testcase, please consider upgrading to 5.8.1-2, though it is still delivered as test it shold be much better than 5.8.0-5. 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/
