Here is another revision of teh announcement. I have added what OK reports we have had so far. It would be helpful if anyoue could help turm the remaining...
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Apr 1, 1999 8:03 am
46190
... The whole testsuite should not use arbitrary namespaces, imho. If it needs namespaces, they should have something like perl_test_suite:: prepended. Wasn't...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Apr 1, 1999 8:25 am
46191
This is a success report for perl from pmarques@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. Perl reported to build OK...
Paul Marquess
pmarques@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:20 am
46192
... Bad attit^Waddress? EFAULT? errno = 14? I'm sorry but that's not possible :-) Not at least according to the semget(3) in IRIX 6.5. Either the errno is...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:21 am
46193
... And I now get: [shift5] /tmp/perl5.005_03/t > ./perl lib/ipc_sysv.t 1..16 ok 1 ok 2 ok 3 ok 4 ok 5 ok 6 ok 7 # Bad address not ok 8 not ok 9 not ok 10 not...
Lionel Cons
lionel.cons@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:21 am
46194
... Which is uninteresting - we know what is in the script - it is its _output_ that tells us something... ... You have found an non-ANSI C compiler. As far as...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:21 am
46195
perl5.005_03 tests and installs OK on SunOS 4.1.3 with gcc 2.7.2.3. Mike Guy % perl5.005_03 -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3)...
M.J.T. Guy
mjtg@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:55 am
46196
duff@... wrote ... What do you find surprising? That foreach localises the loop variable? There can't be any question of changing that. Or...
M.J.T. Guy
mjtg@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:55 am
46197
perl5.005_03 builds, tests and installs OK on Solaris 2.6 with gcc. Mike Guy %perl5.005_03 -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3)...
M.J.T. Guy
mjtg@...
Apr 1, 1999 9:59 am
46198
I am using the address of a value in a tied hash and it breaks down if I use it as a Tk textvariable. Here is a sample from the code that motivated this. In...
stef@...
Apr 2, 1999 10:50 am
46199
... It really all depends on what you think foreach() does. Foreach() in perl is significantly different than foreach() in most other languages. $l actually...
Mark Mielke
markm@...
Apr 2, 1999 10:51 am
46200
How about adding a little bit of Zen to Perl's error messages? Below you can find some ideas. From: L & K Olson <kolson@...> Subject: If they wrote...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Apr 2, 1999 10:52 am
46201
... It is also divisible by 12 (and 24). Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Apr 2, 1999 11:08 am
46202
... Unless you are smart enough, see Fatal. Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Apr 1, 1999 11:45 am
46203
This is a success report for perl from root@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. Perl reported to build OK on...
Super-User
root@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:00 pm
46204
... Ok, so maybe you don't like the way it works, but it works exactly as documented (as you yourself point out). So where is the bug? And no, it cannot be...
Jan Dubois
jan.dubois@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:10 pm
46205
... I've asked and I've been told that our system has the latest patches installed. The hardware is 64-bit, if this makes a difference. I've done more tests...
Lionel Cons
lionel.cons@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:10 pm
46206
... I don't think this will actually work properly, as it doesn't cater for the fseek/ftell problem. If you look at the definitions of fseek and ftell in...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:15 pm
46207
... They all (try1, try2, try1 + try.h) compile fine and fail to run: [shift5] ~/public/tmp > gcc -o try try1.c [shift5] ~/public/tmp > ./try semctl IPC_STAT...
Lionel Cons
lionel.cons@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:16 pm
46208
... I've done it already when I produced the stack trace: I had -g instead of -O3 to compile everything and I got the same errors. ... d_sem='define' ...
Lionel Cons
lionel.cons@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:16 pm
46209
... So is the IRIX 6.5 box I have here and it test okay when compile with cc. It has gcc 2.8.1, I'll try to find the time to test how well that works. ... I...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:16 pm
46210
This is a success report for perl from root@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. Perl reported to build OK on...
Operator
root@...
Apr 1, 1999 12:37 pm
46211
... Thanks to AltaVista, I found an explanation. gcc has a documented feature: * [From Jim Wilson] Gcc does not correctly pass/return structures which are...
Lionel Cons
lionel.cons@...
Apr 1, 1999 1:02 pm
46212
Can perl handle large (over 2G) files? Is there any IO:: or Tie:: modules which abstract llseek problems? Thanks. ... Kaoru "Mad Player" MAEDA 75t...
maeda@...
Apr 1, 1999 1:35 pm
46213
... Hey, we're onto something here. Both of these cannot be undef. Either can, but not both. So maybe it's Configure who's to blame. <wince> <staring at...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Apr 1, 1999 1:36 pm
46214
... Text::Wrap still under the wrong headline. -- andreas...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Apr 1, 1999 1:36 pm
46215
... I thought I removed it, and I will honest. OK, so who votes for send out the release announcement today :-) -- Graham Barr <gbarr@...> Life would be...
Graham Barr
gbarr@...
Apr 1, 1999 2:25 pm
46216
After wasting quite some time trying to compile Perl 5.005_03 on an IRIX 6.5 machine with egcs 1.1.2, here is my conclusion: this combination does not work for...
Lionel Cons
lionel.cons@...
Apr 1, 1999 2:26 pm
46217
... Which Tk ? (There were some bugs / features in various versions). It makes a difference if variable is tied at time it is passed to Tk or later. Note that...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nik@...
Apr 1, 1999 2:26 pm
46218
... Note that -mabi=64 will mean that the resulting binaries cannot be used on older systems (and older versions of IRIX), and the 64-bit development ...