[ID 20020715.002] Not OK: perl v5.8.0 on MSWin32-x86-multi-thread 4.0 (UNINSTALLED)

2002-07-15 Thread Andreas Fehr
This is a build failure report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0. - [Please enter your report here] WinNT4, SP6a, MingW 1.1 Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail

Re: 5.8.0 announcement draft

2002-07-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:54:53PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: 2. I would also move the Incompatibilities section to the end of the announcement. Most users of Perl are not interested in these advanced features themselves. They download modules with advanced features and expect

Re: @17440 ok on AIX 4.3.3 / gcc 2.9

2002-07-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed 10 Jul 2002 10:55, Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI : I've successfully compiled/tested the latest snapshot on AIX 4.3.3 with the IBM-supplied gcc (2.9-aix51-020209) (and with the default Configure options.) Is it a 64bit machine? Could you test -Duse64bitall? (no

proposed changes to perlfaq4 (low priority)

2002-07-15 Thread dLux
Hello, I would like to propose a change to the perlfaq4 pod page. I think mentioning the OO date modules would be good in there in a question. From a business-developer's viewpoint (Java, C#) it is an important question if perl has OO date type or not. I think our supply is quite good

Re: RC3 on NCR SVR4: Two tests failing

2002-07-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Don't it always? Here's the revelant paragraph: With OS Release 3.02 and later, these functions are provided in the -lc89 library. For earlier releases, use -lucb from the compat package. So my mission is to get -lc89 seen. Okay.

The P5P report

2002-07-15 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
I should have announced that before... For those of you that haven't noticed already : I'm writing a weekly summary of what's happening there, that gets published on use.perl on mondays. Here's the second one : http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/15/0732235