As I said in another thread I intend to skip directly to version 5.22 shortly after it becomes available in May (assuming the release schedule is still holds).
While looking into some of the test fails on 5.18.4 I've moved back to 5.14.4 for comparison (the fail turned out to be a combination of new optimizations in gcc-4.9 and undefined behaviour in Perl code). The fix in this case was to add a compiler flag (-fwrapv) that disables those optimizations and I'm now back to having roughly the same test fails as the old 5.14.2 from Reini: Failed 9 tests out of 2048, 99.56% okay. ../cpan/Win32/t/GetShortPathName.t --> returns a long path name when called from mintty ../cpan/Win32/t/Names.t --> this old version of Win32 does not know about Windows 8.1 ../cpan/Win32/t/Unicode.t --> ANSI path functions do not return the expected results ../dist/Net-Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t --> same as 5.14.2 ../ext/XS-APItest/t/call_checker.t --> same as 5.14.2 ../lib/File/stat.t --> works if test is not run as Administrator (but then other tests fail) op/filetest.t --> works if test is not run as Administrator (but then other tests fail) porting/exec-bit.t --> global.sym has exec bit set, but not registered as such porting/regen.t --> also something to do with global.sym I'll probably keep the Win32 and other bundled CPAN modules as released with 5.14 and provide the latest versions as unbundled perl-* packages so that Module::CoreList doesn't lie to the user. So, it looks like I'm ready to bring Perl on both 32bit and 64bit to the same (final 5.14.4) version plus I can already do the packaging changes planned for the 5.22 release (dissolution of perl_vendor and creation of perl_base as a minimal install variant) for both architectures. I hope that this would enable a much smoother transition when that version gets released since the dependencies of those packages relying on Perl should be fixable until then. If this sounds like a good idea to everybody else I'd remove the current test package for 5.18.4 on 32bit and replace it with another test package for 5.14.4, likely in about two weeks. Comments or suggestions? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves