Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-26 Thread Lincoln Stein
, March 18, 2003 10:53 AM To: Tim Bunce Cc: Jarkko Hietaniemi; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using perl 5.8.0? On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: Thomas, did you get round to doing this? Tim. Hi Tim, I have worked on it a bit... I attempted

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-26 Thread Lincoln Stein
Is this a Perl problem, a make problem, or a RedHat problem? Lincoln On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:40 pm, Thomas Good wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: Oddly enough, installing Perl 5.8 from source on a virgin RedHat 8.0 system fails with this mysterious error: make:

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: Oddly enough, installing Perl 5.8 from source on a virgin RedHat 8.0 system fails with this mysterious error: make: *** No rule to make target `built-in', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop. Anyone seen this? Lincoln, yes, I had to use

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-25 Thread M. Addlework
--- Thomas Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote: Oddly enough, installing Perl 5.8 from source on a virgin RedHat 8.0 system fails with this mysterious error: make: *** No rule to make target `built-in', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop.

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-18 Thread Tim Bunce
Thomas, did you get round to doing this? Tim. On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:12AM +, Tim Bunce wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Thomas Good wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: While I was using 5.8 large data transfers via DBI failed consistently. I have

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-18 Thread Cosby, Christopher
18, 2003 10:53 AM To: Tim Bunce Cc: Jarkko Hietaniemi; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using perl 5.8.0? On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: Thomas, did you get round to doing this? Tim. Hi Tim, I have worked on it a bit... I attempted to reproduce

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-03 Thread Charles Jardine
Lincoln Stein wrote: My test case is part of a big script that requires BioPerl. What I'll do is to pull it out into a self-contained script. Frankly I don't think that this has anything to do with DBI, but rather something fundamental that changed with Perl's IO handling. A whole bunch of

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-03-03 Thread Jay Hannah
From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone using perl 5.8.0? After a lot of upgrades (seg fault, DBI connect hangs), we seem to have one old RedHat server happy w/ 5.8.0. Linux version 2.4.7-10 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.9 6-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-27 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2003-02-25 21:34:52 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Generally speaking, I've been impressed with 5.8.0 on both Solaris 7 (UltraSparc) and also on MacOS X (10.2.3 at the moment). On MacOS X, there's a peculiarity in the way CPAN and CPANPLUS manage to put the first

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-27 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2003-02-27 06:17:53 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Peter J. Holzer wrote: As a workaround, you can unset the EDITOR variable. Intriguing -- and effective. I wonder how that happens! What's your value for $EDITOR - mine is usually vi or vim. Mine, too. hp -- _ | Peter

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:05:59PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote: My test case is part of a big script that requires BioPerl. What I'll do is to pull it out into a self-contained script. Frankly I don't think that this has anything to do with DBI, but rather something fundamental that

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Thomas Good wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: While I was using 5.8 large data transfers via DBI failed consistently. I have compared notes with others (including Lincoln Stein) and this problem is easily reproduced. In fact, I

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2003-02-25 21:34:52 -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Generally speaking, I've been impressed with 5.8.0 on both Solaris 7 (UltraSparc) and also on MacOS X (10.2.3 at the moment). On MacOS X, there's a peculiarity in the way CPAN and CPANPLUS manage to put the first character of output on

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Neibarger Scott H
I'm afraid I can't offer any feedback that would be useful, other than the fact that Lincoln is most likely correct that this problem is manifested due to changes in PerlIO. I have several daemons running on Tivoli TMR servers, many of which use DBI and DBD::Oracle; one of which is experiencing

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Tim Bunce
Ah, mentioning PerlIO and DBD::Oracle points the finger at the fact that DBD::Oracle hasn't been updated to use PerlIO for warnings/trace (at least not in the release on CPAN). That may be a factor. If DBD::Oracle needs to 'say' anything (which is very rare in normal operation) it'll be passing a

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread Susan Cassidy
I am using perl 5.8.0 and DBD-Oracle-1.12 with DBI-1.32, on Solaris 5.8. I have trouble inserting data into CLOBs if the data is over 32K, and the DBD does not understand Oracle type XMLDATA at all. I posted a question about this earlier, but no one appeared to know anything. Doesn't seem to

RE: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-26 Thread shildreth
I would like to take this moment to thank Lincoln Stein for his wonderful book Network Programming with Perl; it's been a wonderful resource for me ..has been a great resource for me as well. on this current project. If you've

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's is wider. Please reply to Jarkko (CC'd) and then also CC me if your reply includes any feedback

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le Mardi 25 Février 2003 13:50, Tim Bunce a écrit : Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Yes. Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's is wider.

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:26:03PM -, Steve Haslam wrote: Tim, Jarkko; my main problem with using perl 5.8 for our DBD::Oracle/DBD::Sybase apps is the inability to use signals to time out an operation. We have constructs like: eval { alarm(60); local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { $sth-cancel();

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:13:47AM -0500, Thomas Good wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's is wider. Please reply to

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Tim Bunce wrote: While I was using 5.8 large data transfers via DBI failed consistently. I have compared notes with others (including Lincoln Stein) and this problem is easily reproduced. In fact, I can't stop reproducing it. ;-) A self-contained test case would be

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Lincoln Stein
My test case is part of a big script that requires BioPerl. What I'll do is to pull it out into a self-contained script. Frankly I don't think that this has anything to do with DBI, but rather something fundamental that changed with Perl's IO handling. A whole bunch of symptoms showed up in

Re: Using perl 5.8.0?

2003-02-25 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Tim Bunce wrote: Anyone using perl 5.8.0? Jarkko and I would be interested in any feedback you may have. Obviously my main interest is with DBI and drivers but Jarkko's is wider. Please reply to Jarkko (CC'd) and then also CC me if your reply includes any feedback related to the DBI and/or the