Re: $SIG{__DIE__} should be localized and cleared at the start of an eval block

2004-12-17 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
I agree with you but an alternative you didn't mention is to start off your die handler with: die @_ if $^S;

Re: ICU & Windows -- another task!

2004-05-03 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, folks, our base ICU as we ship with parrot just flat-out > doesn't seem to work with cygwin I figured I would add my lessons learned here so that people don't have to start from scratch. ICU's static only implementation (Win32) has not been completed and likely will

Re: ICU & Windows -- another task!

2004-05-03 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Ron Blaschke wrote: > Did just that some time ago, but with version 2.8. It's as simple as In case anyone was wondering - this doesn't work on Cygwin. It was among the many things I have tried. It links but then coredumps when ./parrot config_lib.pasm is executed. Oh, and using the latest deve

Cygwin build failing for some time

2004-04-26 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
I am not sure if this message will make it to the list as I am posting it using the www.perldiscuss.com interface. Cygwin has been failing to build since at least the 21st. I suspect it has been since ICU went in. I checked the tinderbox report but it is not listed. FWIW - PLATFORMS is also inc

Re: Cygwin build failing for some time

2004-04-27 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
es. Any further insight would be greatly appreciated. Perldiscuss - Perl Newsgroups And Mailing Lists wrote: > I am not sure if this message will make it to the list as I am posting it > using the www.perldiscuss.com interface. Cygwin has been failing to build > since at least the 21st. I sus

Re: Cygwin build failing for some time

2004-04-30 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
uicker and a wider variety of responses. > PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote: > >Ok, after much gnashing of teeth, I have made *some* progress: > >1. Start as clean as possible > > A. cd /parrot > > B. make realclean > > C. c

Re: Compiling parrot, cvs head

2004-09-05 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes wrote: > I know head can not compile at all, but maybe this can help to know that > the following tests fail on my Slackware Linux: > t/pmc/signalNOK 2# Failed test (t/pmc/signal.t at line 44) > t/pmc/signalNOK 4# Failed test (t/pmc/s

Memory leak

2004-10-15 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
I need to embed Perl function in C program running as a daemon on Linux and Solaris. What it needs is to do pattern matching in Perl while it is difficult in C. However, frequently calling either of functions eval_pv or perl_run would keep increasing the size of process. How come these functions do

Perl 6 using Perl 5 modules

2003-12-21 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
When the official release of Perl 6 is released and I start to write some Perl 6 programs using Perl 5 modules, will I get any errors? How will this be handled? Will all of the Perl 5 modules have to be ported over and converted to Perl 6 code? Can I have a basic perl6.pl file while using the stand

Perl on WinCE

2004-02-04 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Hi, This is with regard to deploying Perl on Windows CE. My hardware setup consists of an Intel Celeron Processor, an i830M4 chipset Intel motherboard and I am running WindowsCE .Net 4.2 here. The board is targeted at Notebook devices. This is acting as my Windows CE device while I am using a

Perl on WinCE

2004-02-04 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Hi, This is with regard to deploying Perl on Windows CE. My hardware setup consists of an Intel Celeron Processor, an i830M4 chipset Intel motherboard and I am running WindowsCE .Net 4.2 here. The board is targeted at Notebook devices. This is acting as my Windows CE device while I am using a

GetUsers using the Win32::API

2004-02-10 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Shouldn't it be possible to capture a list of users on a windows box by only using the Win32::API module? I am aware that Win32::NetAdmin and Win32::AdminMisc have wrappers around C functions that accomplish this but can someone show me how you would accomplish this using the Win32::API. I assume

Re: cygwin

2004-03-09 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
It also hung for me on test 12 in extend. I opened another window and did $ kill and it was able to complete the tests. WinXP - full Cygwin installation up to date Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ---