Change 20581 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/08/09 08:45:18
Update on the cygwin situation. (I'm wishfully thinking
that the sigaction.t failure was fixed by (blead) #20565.)
Affected files ...
... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#67 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#67 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#66~20531~ Wed Aug 6 11:35:02 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Sat Aug 9 01:45:18 2003
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@
=head2 Platform-specific enhancements
In Cygwin Perl can now be built with threads (C<Configure -Duseithreads>).
+This works 100% with Cygwin 1.3.22, with Cygwin 1.5.x there are some
+problems causes by the changes in the Cygwin threading libraries,
+see L</"Cygwin 1.5 problems">:
In newer FreeBSD releases Perl 5.8.0 compilation failed because of
trying to use F<malloc.h>, which in FreeBSD is just a dummy file, and
@@ -757,13 +760,23 @@
regarding Unicode support. Many Unicode tests are skipped when
they really should be fixed.
-=head2 Cygwin 1.5
+=head2 Cygwin 1.5 problems
-Perl 5.8.1 does not build with Cygwin 1.5. Perl 5.8.1 does
-build and work well with Cygwin 1.3, though: with (uname -a)
-C<Cygwin_NT-5.0 ... 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 ...>
-a 99.88 "make test" result (only one subtest of ext/POSIX/t/sigaction.t
-failed) was achieved with C<Configure -des -Duseithreads>.
+Some changes in Cygwin threading libraries broke the following tests
+in Cygwin 1.5.2:
+
+ ../ext/threads/t/join.t 0 139 12 14 116.67% 6-12
+ ../ext/threads/t/thread.t 5 1280 25 24 96.00% 14-25
+
+Also, the
+
+ op/sysio.t 39 1 2.56% 39
+
+is failing for some yet unknown reason.
+
+Perl 5.8.1 does build and work well with Cygwin 1.3, though: with (uname -a)
+C<CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ... 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 ...>
+a 100% "make test" was achieved with C<Configure -des -Duseithreads>.
=head2 FreeBSD: malloc dilemma
End of Patch.
