On Tue, June 19, 2007 7:24 pm, Reini Urban wrote: > I want to it take over from Gerrit.
Thank you so much. If it were up to me, you'd get three gold stars. > Please try to test it. It's a really weird build system. > But I'm quite happy with this 5.8.8 > > > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-1.tar.bz2 > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-1-src.tar.b > z2 > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl_manpages/perl_ma > npages-5.8.8-1.tar.bz2 setup.hint's attached (unchanged) > > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of > Failed > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/ipcsysv.t 1 256 16 32 200.00% 1-16 > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/msg.t 0 12 ?? ?? % ?? > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/sem.t 0 12 ?? ?? % ?? > ../lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t 2 1 50.00% 2 > op/magic.t 58 1 1.72% 27 > op/taint.t 0 12 238 178 74.79% 150-238 > 25 tests and 262 subtests skipped. > Failed 6/996 test scripts, 99.40% okay. 107/117806 subtests failed, > 99.91% okay. I think all of those but the Net::Ping are due to cygserver not running (or server not in CYGWIN). And Net::Ping tends to have obscure problems that vary from system to system. > I also have a test version for perl-5.9.4 ready, but I'll wait a bit to > get some patches in, until Rafaël announces the 5.9.5 release. -- There shouldn't be major changes between now and 5.9.5, so it wouldn't hurt at all to grab http://public.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current-snap/perl-current-latest.tar.bz2 for a test version.
