Re: Reporting bugs

2009-04-30 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 19:07, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 18:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > snip >> You are encouraged to include a patch also when submitting a bug report - I >> did so in the above example, btw - so I still not quite get the distinction. >> Are the bug reports

Re: No newlines when writing to a log file

2009-04-30 Thread John W. Krahn
Dave Thacker wrote: Hi folks, Hello, I've created a log file in my code, and I print various strings to it as I go through my program. The problem is that everything is showing up on one line for each iteration of my main loop, even though I have newlines in the string. I'm getting: The log

Re: No newlines when writing to a log file

2009-04-30 Thread Chas. Owens
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 16:03, Dave Thacker wrote: snip > print LOG "The log starts here\n"; snip one line snip >    print "Contacting $host\n"; snip a second line snip >    my $ftp=Net::FTP->new($host,Debug=>0, Timeout=>360) or print LOG "Can't > connect to $host"; snip oops, no newline sn

No newlines when writing to a log file

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Thacker
Hi folks, I've created a log file in my code, and I print various strings to it as I go through my program. The problem is that everything is showing up on one line for each iteration of my main loop, even though I have newlines in the string. I'm getting: The log starts here Can't make test-send

Which configure flag enables the "setuid/guid emulation"

2009-04-30 Thread Thomas von Eyben
Hi list, I am trying to make my own perl586.info file for use with http://finkproject.org/ to compile perl with the "setuid/guid emulation" enabled. Which configure flag enables this? Shall I add "-Dd_dosuid=y" to the compilescript to overrule the default value = n NB.: I need this in order to