RE: [PATCH] The return of the consting

2005-09-13 Thread Robin Barker
Andy I still get the following warnings related to attributes Robin gv.c: In function `Perl_gv_init': gv.c:167: warning: ignoring return value of `Perl_start_subparse', declared with attribute warn_unused_result op.c: In function `Perl_newCONSTSUB': op.c:4613: warning: null argument where

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Archive::Tar 1.25

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 August 2005 17:59 To: Jos I. Boumans Cc: Perl 5 Porters Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Archive::Tar 1.25 On 8/25/05, Jos I. Boumans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, applied as 12201, with the following

[PATCH] perl.h, use STRINGIFY in 25171

2005-07-28 Thread Robin Barker
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2005 14:04 To: Robin Barker Cc: ''The Perl5 Porters Mailing List ''; John Peacock Subject: Re: [PATCH] RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format Thanks, applied as change #25171 to bleadperl. --- This e

[PATCH] silence compiler warning in mg.c POSIX.xs

2005-07-28 Thread Robin Barker
This fixes some compiler warnings in mg.c and POSIX.xs, and clarifies some related macro definitions in perl.h Robin --- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material; it is for the intended

[PATCH] tidy up DieNull and DIE_NULL

2005-07-28 Thread Robin Barker
This patch allows Perl_die to have a NULL argument - corresponding to throwing an exception. This allows various bits of code (previously complicated by format checkery) to be simplified. The macros DieNull and DIE_NULL have been removed: they don't appear to used in CPAN modules. Robin

RE: [PATCH] Squish warnings in POSIX.xs

2005-07-27 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 July 2005 17:03 To: Steve Peters Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Squish warnings in POSIX.xs On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: POSIX.xs has recently been giving the

RE: blead: croak(Nullch) is broken

2005-07-20 Thread Robin Barker
I'm worried that allowing a Null pointer will still cause printf warnings. Lack to tuits to look at this until next week. Robin -Original Message- From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2005 14:24 To: Stas Bekman Cc: The Perl5 Porters Mailing List Subject: Re: blead:

RE: [perl #36586] $1 gets mysteriously unset when leaving 'for' b lock

2005-07-18 Thread Robin Barker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Somehow, although $1 was set it has been changed back to undef on exiting the 'for' block. I don't see anything in perlre or perlvar documenting this. In perlre: The numbered match variables ($1, $2, $3, etc.) and the related punctuation set ($+, $, $`, $', and

RE: [PATCH] RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format

2005-07-18 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Steve Hay To: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Cc: Robin Barker; ''The Perl5 Porters Mailing List ''; John Peacock Sent: 18/07/05 17:26 Subject: Re: [PATCH] RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: On 7/14/05, Robin Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[PATCH] RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format

2005-07-14 Thread Robin Barker
Attached patch reinstates VDf in blead perl to implement the %vd format, which is still used in XS code and will reappear in blead for read-only version numbers. I have taken the opportunity to tidy up the code for the %p hacks that are used to proved SVf (was %_) and VDf. The format processing

[PATCH] RE: rebuilding lib/Config*

2005-07-14 Thread Robin Barker
I suggest we use this patch I proposed earlier (as one of two alternatives). It removes mv-if-diff from lib/Config.pm and uses lib/Config.pod to de-parallelise the call to configpm. There does not seem much downside to this approach -- except for the comment in Makefile saying that

[PATCH] Error in earlier patch in sv.c

2005-07-13 Thread Robin Barker
In an earlier patch of mine (18696), I made a mistake. [I added code to a one-line if statement without changing it to a block if.] The attached patch fixes the mistake and (much harder) provides a test to distinguish old and new behaviour. Should new tests go at the end of the

RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format

2005-07-12 Thread Robin Barker
John I'm sorry that I didn't notice when you submitted the original patches that you were nuking the VDf support. Is there some reason that the '%-1p' hack cannot be re-added so that VDf could be supported in the core as well as in XS modules? Because its a nasty hack that I never meant

RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format

2005-07-11 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: John Peacock To: Robin Barker Cc: ''The Perl5 Porters Mailing List ' ' Sent: 09/07/05 00:56 Subject: Re: blead: no longer supports %vd format Robin Barker wrote: My 23767 (and a few later patches) kept the -Wformat checking hacks hidden behind -DCHECK_FORMAT

RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format

2005-07-08 Thread Robin Barker
gcc -Wall (or gcc -Wformat) complain about %vd and %_ because the functions they are used in now have an attribute that says they expect format strings. This attribute used to be conditional on -DCHECK_FORMAT but that was removed: when VDf (='vd') was removed and SVf was changed from '_' to a

RE: blead: no longer supports %vd format

2005-07-08 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: John Peacock Cc: Robin Barker; 'The Perl5 Porters Mailing List ' Sent: 08/07/05 20:43 Subject: Re: blead: no longer supports %vd format Robin Barker wrote: Previously -DCHECK_FORMAT defined VDf + SVf differently, to avoid the warnings and allow -Wformat

RE: [purl #36417] IO::Handle::getline() doco should note an impor tant difference from $io

2005-06-29 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 June 2005 00:21 To: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: [perl #36417] IO::Handle::getline() doco should note an important difference from $io On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:25:31PM -, Justin Mason wrote:

[PATCH perl.h] FPTR2DPTR/DPTR2FPTR

2005-06-20 Thread Robin Barker
FPTR2DPTR in perl.h is defined as (t)PTR2UV(p) if UVSIZE PTRSIZE this gives a compiler warning. We could use INT2PTR(t,PTR2UV(p)) but this could expand to (t)(unsigned long)(UV)(unsigned long)(p) which is a bit unnecessary. What is needed is an unsigned integer the same size as a

RE: rebuilding lib/Config*; was RE: [PATCH] 5.8.7 fails to build with parallel make

2005-06-20 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 June 2005 14:48 To: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: rebuilding lib/Config*; was RE: [PATCH] 5.8.7 fails to build with parallel make Robin Barker wrote: I assume this solves the parallel make problem

rebuilding lib/Config*; was RE: [PATCH] 5.8.7 fails to build with parallel make

2005-06-17 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez To: perl5-porters@perl.org Sent: 17/06/05 13:48 Subject: Re: [perl #36199] [PATCH] 5.8.7 fails to build with parallel make Steve Peters via RT wrote: Actually, not very hard at all. We just need to make the Makefile single-thread making

[PATCH] eliminate always running mktables

2005-06-01 Thread Robin Barker
mktables is re-run because it depends on Config_heavy.pl which is always updated. What is needed is a temporary config_heavy, as in the patch below. Robin --- /usr/appl/src/perl/perl-5.8.7/Makefile.SH.orig Sat Feb 5 15:17:44 2005 +++ /usr/appl/src/perl/perl-5.8.7/Makefile.SH Wed Jun 1

[PATCH]? Why touch lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm?

2005-06-01 Thread Robin Barker
Makefile.SH contains (for the target lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm) sh mv-if-diff minimod.tmp $@# $@ == lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm -touch lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm The touch line makes a nonsense of the mv-if-diff line, which serves to preserve old modification times on

RE: [PATCH] eliminate always running mktables

2005-06-01 Thread Robin Barker
@perl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] eliminate always running mktables Robin Barker wrote: mktables is re-run because it depends on Config_heavy.pl which is always updated. What is needed is a temporary config_heavy, as in the patch below. Thanks, applied as #24656. --- /usr/appl/src/perl/perl

RE: [PATCH] eliminate always running mktables

2005-06-01 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2005 11:03 To: Robin Barker; perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] eliminate always running mktables Robin Barker wrote: Not sure my patch does what I wanted. I think configpm may get run twice

RE: [PATCH] eliminate always running mktables

2005-06-01 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2005 15:43 To: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] eliminate always running mktables Robin Barker wrote: -Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PATCH] Attribute configuration

2005-05-19 Thread Robin Barker
Andy What is the recommended way to test -Wformat on the extensions: make all OPTIMIZE=-Wall ? Robin --- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material; it is for the intended

[PATCH] was RE: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf checking for gcc

2005-05-18 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 May 2005 20:15 To: Robin Barker Cc: 'Perl 5 Porters ' Subject: Re: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf checking for gcc Should Porting/pumpkin.pod say something more/different about CHECK_FORMAT, or should

FW: Your Email Account is Suspended For Security Reasons

2005-05-14 Thread Robin Barker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14/05/05 18:40 Subject: Your Email Account is Suspended For Security Reasons We have suspended some of your email services, to resolve the problem you should read the attached document. email-text.zip - Any

RE: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf checking for gcc

2005-05-04 Thread Robin Barker
is less robust than the default code. So even for blead perl I do not think CHECK_FORMAT can be the default. Robin -Original Message- From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 May 2005 20:15 To: Robin Barker Cc: 'Perl 5 Porters ' Subject: Re: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf

[PATCH perl-5.8.7-tobe] relating to 23767

2005-05-04 Thread Robin Barker
This patch is only relevant to the maint branch (5.8.7). When the series of patches starting with 23767 was integrated into maint (as patch 24153) the changes for the %vd format were lost - because blead no longer needs to use %vd internally. The attached (and post-pended) patch does what is

RE: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf checking for gcc

2005-05-03 Thread Robin Barker
, or should it be said somewhere else? Robin -Original Message- From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2005 15:14 To: Robin Barker Cc: 'Perl 5 Porters ' Subject: Re: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf checking for gcc On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:59:46AM +0100, Robin Barker

RE: [PATCH] printf.patch: Adding printf checking for gcc

2005-05-02 Thread Robin Barker
From: Andy Lester To: Perl 5 Porters Sent: 01/05/05 21:07 We have printf format checking infrastructure in place, but it's broken. The directives for GCC are incorrect, so have no effect. Andy I'm not sure why you say its broken, it iscertainly not true that the directives for GCC have no

RE: perldoc perlfunc pack

2005-04-21 Thread Robin Barker
I think Alexey is quoting later ASN.1 standards (X.690). Unfortunately, I stopped working on protocol standards some years ago and I have no thrown away the documents ASN.1 was the last to go). The description in perlfunc corresponding to my recollection of the encoding rules in the ASN.1

RE: perldoc perlfunc pack

2005-04-21 Thread Robin Barker
). pelpacktut also says Details can be found at Casbah.org, the Scarab project - I haven't checked. Again sorry for my confusion. Robin -Original Message- From: Alexey Toptygin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2005 19:02 To: Robin Barker Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: RE

RE: bin/pod2html and bin/pod2test

2005-04-15 Thread Robin Barker
pod2html should be in the directory returned by /full/path/to/perl -V:bin or /full/path/to/perl -V:scriptdir It will usually be called pod2html but might be (say) pod2html5.6.1 if /full/path/to/perl -V:versiononly gives versiononly='define'; Assuming Test::Inline does nothing

[PATCH Perl 5.9.2] -Wformat

2005-04-12 Thread Robin Barker
This is a patch against perl-5.9.2 to deal with -Wformat warnings. There are other warnings from gcc -Wall: ... comparison is always false due to limited range of data type ... might be used uninitialized in this function Can't see how to do anything about the former (for the

RE: [PATCH] to provide a Perl6-style 'say' keyword.

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Barker
If you define two Csay functions, one in IO::Handle, perl just copes! I've added CUsing , __PACKAGE__, : , just to see what is happening. Robin % cat Perl6/Say.pm package Perl6::Say; require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(say); sub say { local $\ = defined $\ ? $\ :

RE: [PATCH] to provide a Perl6-style 'say' keyword.

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Barker
Oops! That's what Perl6::Say already does: I misunderstood the comment from Nichols Clark. Robin -Original Message- From: Robin Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2005 13:06 To: 'perl5-porters@perl.org' Cc: 'Rafael Garcia-Suarez' Subject: RE: [PATCH] to provide a Perl6

RE: [PATCH] to provide a Perl6-style 'say' keyword.

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Barker
From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2005 13:21 Robin Barker wrote: perl -MPerl6::Say -we 'say Hello World; say STDERR Warning' Clever, but : say { $fh } willow still doesn't work. Yes. With the way I wrote it you have to do % perl -mPerl6::Say

RE: (blead patch) New TRIE regex patch

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Barker
Is there any difference in the output from car, cart, carp, call, cull and cars; and from cart, carp, call, cull and cars (without car)? Should the diagram below be amended to show that car is a terminal? c + a + r + | | | | | + t | | | | | + p |

RE: [perl #33054] Segmentation fault in DB_File with perl-5.8.6 g cc-3.3.2

2005-02-03 Thread Robin Barker
of gcc-3.3.2+ or -3.4+ Robin -Original Message- From: Paul Marquess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2005 17:39 To: 'Robin Barker' Subject: RE: [perl #33054] Segmentation fault in DB_File with perl-5.8.6 gcc-3.3.2 Hmmm, not sure about mixing'n'matching gcc. Any chance you

RE: [perl #33054] Segmentation fault in DB_File with perl-5.8.6 g cc-3.3.2

2005-01-27 Thread Robin Barker
I have solved this by upgrading to gcc 3.4.3 and db 4.3.7 I then needed various bits of Cenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH= and C-Dlddlflags=-Wl,--rpath\ -Wl,/opt/db/lib But I now have recompiled working versions of perl-5.8.6 and perl-current. Robin -Original Message- From: Robin Barker [mailto

RE: [PATCH] Further follow-up to 23767

2005-01-20 Thread Robin Barker
patches against blead please. Nicholas will only integrate from there on. The patches were against the version of perl-current from last week. I don't have rsync so I have to download each file from http://public.activestate.com/gsar/APC/perl-current Does anyone have a utility that acts like

[PATCH] Further follow-up to 23767

2005-01-19 Thread Robin Barker
Rafael I have some further patches following on from the CHECK_FORMAT patches, attached as a tar ball. utf8_2005.patch silences a couple of compiler warnings, vstring.patch replaces %_ by %SVf for the vstring changes

RE: [perl #33769] File::Temp::tempdir(CLEANUP=1) broken when for king; also re [perl #30040]

2005-01-13 Thread Robin Barker
It may be appropriate to call POSIX::_exit(0) in the child, because _exit avoid END blocks. i.e. the documentation should suggest using CPOSIX::_exit(0). This was a useful workaround for perl bug #30040. Robin -Original Message- From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13

[PATCH] follow-up to 23767

2005-01-11 Thread Robin Barker
This patch corrects part of the previous patch and updates the documentation in Porting/pumpkin.pod Robin -Original Message- From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 January 2005 14:09 To: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] to improve -DCHECK_FORMAT Robin

RE: [perl #33728] Missing in docs

2005-01-09 Thread Robin Barker
What you want are C defined {$pack.'::'.$sub} and C $pack-can($sub) depending you want subroutines defined in the package or methods callable from the package. Robin perl -lwe my($pack,$sub) = @ARGV; \ unless(eval 'require '.$pack) {print 'No package '.$pack} \ elsif( defined

[PATCH] to improve -DCHECK_FORMAT

2005-01-05 Thread Robin Barker
This patch improves the behaviour of building perl under -DCHECK_FORMAT to produce a properly functioning executable (passes all tests). It does this by replacing the formats %_ by %-p %.256_ by %-256p %vd by %-1p There are then hacks in sv.c to

[PATCH] correct format warnings

2005-01-05 Thread Robin Barker
Repeat of patch to correct format warnings (found with -DCHECK_FORMAT) applies to 5.8.6 Robin --- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material; it is for the intended addressee(s) only. If

[PATCH] unnecessary rmdir in Makefile

2005-01-05 Thread Robin Barker
make distclean tries to rmdir lib/Digest but MANIFEST includes files in lib/Digest Robin diff -ur /opt/src/perl/perl-5.8.6/Makefile.SH ./Makefile.SH --- /opt/src/perl/perl-5.8.6/Makefile.SHThu Oct 21 16:30:02 2004 +++ ./Makefile.SH Wed Jan 5 09:40:34 2005 @@ -1032,8 +1032,8 @@

[PATCH] gcc and ld in Configure

2005-01-05 Thread Robin Barker
To compile gcc-3.4.3 is used -use-gnu-ld, this then put 'Configured ... -use-gnu-ld' in the output of gcc -v that was picked up by the attempts to find the path to GNU ld in Configure. This patch fixes this in two ways: replaces 'grep ld' by 'grep /ld' so '-use-gnu-ld' is ignored

[PATCH pod/perlxs.pod] RE: [perl #32660] INT2PTR not mentioned in perlxs(1)

2005-01-04 Thread Robin Barker
This bug is valid: INT2PTR is necessary/used in some existing typemap files. The attached patch includes INT2PTR in the code in pod/perlxs.pod (as suggested) and adds a couple of sentences explaining INT2PTR and PTR2IV, etc. I think the ticket can be closed. Robin -Original Message-

RE: [PATCH perl.h toke.c utf8.c] minor format clean up

2004-12-01 Thread Robin Barker
) -Original Message- From: Robin Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2004 19:15 To: Perl 5 Porters Subject: [PATCH perl.h toke.c utf8.c] minor format clean up Patch against perl-5.8.6 Clears up some warnings from -Wformat. Sorry I didn't have tuits to get this into 5.8.6 Robin

[PATCH perl.h toke.c utf8.c] minor format clean up

2004-11-30 Thread Robin Barker
Patch against perl-5.8.6 Clears up some warnings from -Wformat. Sorry I didn't have tuits to get this into 5.8.6 Robin --- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material; it is for the

[PATCH Perldoc.pm] RE: [perl #31227] perldoc -f, -q ignores extra arguments with no notice

2004-11-02 Thread Robin Barker
I supplied a patch for this (on rt.perl.org). I suggest it should go in 5.8.6 Robin -Original Message- From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2004 19:35 To: Steve Peters via RT Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [perl #31227] perldoc -f, -q ignores extra

strange lock_keys bug - fixed in 5.8.5

2004-10-28 Thread Robin Barker
Does anyone know why this happens, and when/how it was fixed (fixed in 5.8.5). The original was klocs spread over several files running under 5.8.0. % perl5.8.0 -Mstrict -MHash::Util=lock_keys -lwe 'my %h; $h{a}++; print keys %h' a % perl5.8.0 -Mstrict -MHash::Util=lock_keys -lwe 'my %h;

RE: strange lock_keys bug - fixed in 5.8.5

2004-10-28 Thread Robin Barker
OK, so it is patch 18256/18259. I didn't find it because the change log says lock_key not lock_keys, so I didn't find it. Sorry to raise this and then reply to my own post - at least I am reassured there are some tests for this. Robin -Original Message- From: Robin Barker [mailto

[PATCH handy.h] RE: MIME-Base64-2.22 [PATCH]

2004-01-08 Thread Robin Barker
I think the isxdigit - isXDIGIT change is right, but I still get the subscript has type `char'. The attached (one-line) patch to handy.h fixes the warning for me. Robin -Original Message- From: Gisle Aas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2004 13:29 To: Robin Barker Cc

RE: storable module ver 2.07

2003-08-14 Thread Robin Barker
No, not necessarily, the README file is meant to tell you something about the module/distribution, so you can decide if you want to look further. (Where does it call itself a man-page?) A little example of how to use the module is included in the synopsis section of the man page, which can be

RE: [perl #22725] is this a bug?

2003-06-18 Thread Robin Barker
I wrote: see Cperldoc -f decimal for a full explanation. I meant: perldoc -q decimal Robin --- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged material; it is for the intended

[PATCH] RE: [perl #22599] Strange behaviour when combining foreac h and printf

2003-06-11 Thread Robin Barker
The attached patch causes a warning to be issued if the string to be left-justified by s?printf contains a newline. I have put the warning in the existing printf class: perhaps it should be in a new class. Robin -Original Message- From: Robin Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06

RE: [PATCH] %_ (was Re: [PATCH] operation on `PL_na' may be und efined)

2003-01-20 Thread Robin Barker
It was me! It is used with -DCHECK_FORMAT to do printf format checking. See Porting/pumpkin.pod. Robin -Original Message- From: Nick Ing-Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 January 2003 15:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rafael Garcia-Suarez

[PATCH] 5.8.0-RC1 on SunOS 4!

2002-07-09 Thread Robin Barker
: Robin Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ DOC PATCH] Re: build failure on Solaris with useithreads MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:57:24PM +0100, Robin Barker wrote: On Monday, 2002-07-08 at 16:30:30

[PATCH Configure] must do -Dcc=gcc with -Dusethreads

2002-03-21 Thread Robin Barker
; then + $cat 4 EOM +However, any setting of the C compiler flags (e.g. for thread support) has been lost. +It may be necessary to pass -Dcc=gcc to Configure (together with e.g. -Dusethreads). +EOM + fi;; esac fi fi -- Robin Barker

Re: [PATCH re bug 200713.003] Re: Perlbug - reminder of bug(20010713.003) status

2002-02-04 Thread Robin Barker
Robin Barker wrote: [snip] + my $fh = FileHandle-new; + if ($fh-open($configpmtest)) { + $fh-print(1;\n); I'm just a bit curious... is there any reason you're using FileHandle, rather than IO::File ? It was in the piece of repeated code I copies

[PATCH Configure] perl -V broken

2001-07-09 Thread Robin Barker
$PERL_VERSION subversion $PERL_SUBVERSION$patchlevel) configuration: +Summary of my $package (revision $baserev version $PERL_VERSION subversion $PERL_SUBVERSION$mypatchlevel) configuration: Platform: osname=$osname, osvers=$osvers, archname=$archname uname='$myuname' -- Robin Barker

[PATCH pod] overlong =item

2001-06-21 Thread Robin Barker
from the right +and pads the number with zeros. =back -- Robin Barker| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CMSC, Building 10, | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090 National Physical Laboratory, | Fax: +44 (0) 20 8977 7091 Teddington, Middlesex, UK. TW11 OLW | WWW

Re: [ID 20010123.029] Use of uninitialized value in split

2001-01-23 Thread Robin Barker
.1) This bug should closed Robin -- Robin Barker| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CMSC, Building 10, | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090 National Physical Laboratory, | Fax: +44 (0) 20 8977 7091 Teddington, Middlesex, UK. TW11 OLW | WWW: http://www.npl.co.uk

[PATCH 5.7.0] for -Dusemultiplicity; was Re: perl@7777

2000-11-21 Thread Robin Barker
(size), \ +#define SSNEWa(size,align) save_alloc(size, \ (align - ((int)((caddr_t)PL_savestack[PL_savestack_ix]) % align)) % align) #define SSNEWat(n,t,align) SSNEWa((n)*sizeof(t), align) - End Included Message - -- Robin Barker| Email: [EMAIL

[ID 20001108.002] perl@7595 pragma/locale.t failures

2000-11-08 Thread Robin Barker
This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. - [Please enter your report here] t/pragma/locale.t failed tests 99 and 116 # The following locales # #

pseudo-hashes should die; was Re: bleedperl breaks module

2000-10-26 Thread Robin Barker
in actual programs, although the idea is rather nice... Find them rather useful myself for picking up typos in hash keys. Robin -- Robin Barker| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CMSC, Building 10, | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090 National Physical Laboratory, | Fax:

Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages

2000-08-16 Thread Robin Barker
I vote for 'HERE' That seems like a nicely simple way out. EltEltHERE is not still nice to read, though.. I think 'HERE' should be OK in the pods. Robin -- Robin Barker| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CMSC, Building 10, | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090

[PATCH 5.6.0] Re: [ID 20000509.003] Re: Bug with vec() and bitwise OR?

2000-05-11 Thread Robin Barker
ok 1\n" : "not ok 1\n"; print length($foo) == 0 ? "ok 2\n" : "not ok 2\n"; @@ -24,4 +24,6 @@ vec($Vec, 0, 32) = 0xbaddacab; print $Vec eq "\xba\xdd\xac\xab" ? "ok 14\n" : "not ok 14\n"; print vec($Vec, 0, 32) == 3135089835 ? &q

Re [ID 19991215.004] [PATCH 5.005_63] FAILED at test 247 in pragma/warnings

1999-12-15 Thread Robin Barker
to cast UV/IV before using %d will not only produce wrong output, but will cause printf to get out of step with its arguments. Robin -- Robin Barker, \ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Systems Engineering, \ Tel:+44 (0) 20 8943 7090 B10, National Physical