[PATCH] SvPVX_const() - part 3 ... and const'ing Storable

2005-05-31 Thread Steve Peters
patches done before thinking about that. Instead, I just did some const'ing to it instead. Due to some warnings that came up mysteriously in the compiles, I've held out regcomp.c and regexec.c for now. This patch has fully smoked again since. Enjoy! Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ./ext/B

[PATCH] SvPVX_const() - patch #4

2005-06-02 Thread Steve Peters
, there is also a change to embed.fnc to constify S_sv_release_COW. This all been tested with -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -DPERL_COPY_ON_WRITE. Since there is a change to embed.fnc, a regen will be required to apply this patch. Enjoy! Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- embed.fnc.old Mon May

Re: mathoms

2005-06-03 Thread Steve Peters
with various XS-based modules. My guess is that these functions shouldn't be all that visible currently, but this could save a few kilobytes. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Perl_av_fake() and Perl_hv_delayfree_ent() - what are these?

2005-06-03 Thread Steve Peters
to Perlbrowse, both function have been around since the initial checkin, but few, if any changes have been made to either function in years. Are these two functions still needed? Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: blead attribute warnings, cygwin + gcc 3.4.1

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Peters
this. For these cases, someone trying to compile Perl on Cygwin with a gcc 2.95 would fail due to that code. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] #if 0 chainsaw

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Peters
Yuck! Code commented out with a #if 0. The attached patch get rid of it in the core. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- av.c.old2005-06-02 03:07:41.0 -0500 +++ av.c2005-06-06 12:10:32.277750032 -0500 @@ -1,957 +1,83 @@ -/*av.c +/*av.h * - *Copyright (C) 1991

Re: [PATCH] #if 0 chainsaw

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Peters
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:54:07PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:38:44PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: --- av.c.old2005-06-02 03:07:41.0 -0500 +++ av.c2005-06-06 12:10:32.277750032 -0500 @@ -1,957 +1,83 @@ -/*av.c +/*av.h I don't

Re: [perl #7250] Inappropriate warning for 'my' in 'open'

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:19:39PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Steve Peters via RT wrote: This ticket has been reopened, but I not really sure why? Can you explain? Oops! I forgot to copy p5p on the reply. Can you give an explanation of why this warning

[PATCH] Minor change to commented code in POSIX.xs

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Peters
for POSIX.xs. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs.old 2005-06-02 04:13:18.0 -0500 +++ ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs 2005-06-13 11:43:48.409667496 -0500 @@ -413,7 +413,6 @@ } print XS Section:\n; print XS_constant (POSIX, $types); -__END__ */ switch (len) {

[PATCH] Fix for SEGV in ext/B/t/xref.t on OpenBSD

2005-06-14 Thread Steve Peters
appears to be old and recent changes don't seem to be the cause since I get this same coredump on 5.8.7 as well as the current bleadperls. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ext/B/B.xs.old Thu Jun 2 04:13:18 2005 +++ ext/B/B.xs Tue Jun 14 08:06:21 2005 @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ CODE

[PATCH] S_emulate_eaccess() does return a value

2005-06-14 Thread Steve Peters
Despite what embed.fnc and the attributes say, S_emulate_eaccess() does return a values. Here's to hoping this has been the cause of my coredumps in lib/filetest.t. As this change involves embed.fnc, a regen is needed after the patch is applied. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- embed.fnc.old

[PATCH] make -f invalid when USE_SITECUSTOMIZE isn't set

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Peters
related code fully dependent on USE_SITECUSTOMIZE. It also quiets a warning on the noisy aCC compiler on HP-UX. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- perl.c.old Tue Jun 14 04:20:15 2005 +++ perl.c Wed Jun 15 09:28:56 2005 @@ -1282,7 +1282,9 @@ register SV *sv; register char *s

Re: [PATCH] make -f invalid when USE_SITECUSTOMIZE isn't set

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:39:53AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: When you try running Perl-5.8.6 with a -f (which isn't valid), you'll see perl -f Unrecognized switch: -f (-h will show valid options). When currently running blead, Perl waits patiently for STDIN, even though

Re: [PATCH] make -f invalid when USE_SITECUSTOMIZE isn't set

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:14:11AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:39:53AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: When you try running Perl-5.8.6 with a -f (which isn't valid), you'll see perl -f Unrecognized switch: -f (-h will show valid options). When currently

Re: [PATCH] make -f invalid when USE_SITECUSTOMIZE isn't set

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:00:50AM -0700, Gisle Aas wrote: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Peters wrote: OK, the attached includes changes to both perl.c and ext/Devel/DProf/t/DProf.t to support -f only when available. Thanks, applied as #24854. Always

Re: TEST vs harness

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Peters
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: TEST sets $ENV{PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL} to 2 harness does not. Is there any reason for this difference? To help insure there can be different results between the two? :p

Re: [perl #24276] Coercing arrays into hashes

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Peters
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:22:45PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:51:44AM -, Steve Peters via RT wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Oct 23 07:07:01 2003]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug

[PATCH] Re: [perl #36313] perl -e 1for$[=0 crash

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Peters
for for these days, I did notice that the documentation in perlsyn.pod and elsewhere is quite out of date. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- op.c.oldMon Jun 13 11:52:00 2005 +++ op.cThu Jun 16 13:53:26 2005 @@ -3901,6 +3901,10 @@ I32 iterflags = 0; I32 iterpflags = 0; +if (!expr

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #36313] perl -e 1for$[=0 crash

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Peters
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On 6/16/05, Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] :However you correctly found the cause of the problem. $[ is a :pragmatic variable and assignment to it happens at compile

Re: [perl #9741] possible problem with File::Find

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Peters
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:24:44AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:39:29PM -, Steve Peters via RT wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Jun 23 04:38:19 2002]: I am using the Find::Find routine to scan a tree of files. It has worked fine until I tried

Re: [perl #9741] possible problem with File::Find

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Peters
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:44:20AM -0700, Warren L Dodge wrote: I don't think it is right. I now tried it on 5.8.7 813 Here is what I did Make your working directory c:\temp have a few files in that directory file1 file2 file3 With the script shown below it prints this out.

[PATCH] Re: [perl #9741] possible problem with File::Find

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Peters
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:55:04PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:44:20AM -0700, Warren L Dodge wrote: I don't think it is right. I now tried it on 5.8.7 813 Here is what I did Make your working directory c:\temp have a few files in that directory

[PATCH] for/foreach nit in perlsyn.pod

2005-06-20 Thread Steve Peters
that there is no difference in the functionality of the two. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- perlsyn.pod.old Mon Jun 20 08:42:00 2005 +++ perlsyn.pod Mon Jun 20 08:43:53 2005 @@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ LABEL while (EXPR) BLOCK LABEL while (EXPR) BLOCK continue BLOCK LABEL

[PATCH] Silence warning in op.c

2005-06-24 Thread Steve Peters
couple of lines of code in Perl_newXS() involve what to do if the first parameter is null, this seems unnecessary. The patch below silences the warning. Since its a patch to embed.fnc, a regen will be necessary after applying the patch. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- embed.fnc.old 2005-06

Re: Another bcc32 warning caused by change 24945

2005-06-24 Thread Steve Peters
points to ... 4178 MGVTBL_SET( 4179 PL_vtbl_arylen, 4180 MEMBER_TO_FPTR(Perl_magic_getarylen), 4181 MEMBER_TO_FPTR(Perl_magic_setarylen), 4182 NULL, 4183 NULL, 4184 NULL, 4185 NULL, 4186 NULL 4187 ); Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] strlcat() and strlcpy

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Peters
into the public domain. The code required few modifications to be worked into Perl, but are mostly as Russ Allbery original had written them. Thanks Russ! The patch included was tested on Linux, with and without ithreads and DEBUGGING, and passed all of its tests. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH]Re: [perl #36417] IO::Handle::getline() doco should note an important difference from $io

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Peters
context but still returns just one line. If used within a +conditional statement, however, you will need to emulate the +functionality of $io with Cdefined($x = $io-getline) where +C$x is a scalar you have previously defined. =item $io-getlines Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH]Re: [perl #36417] IO::Handle::getline() doco should note an important difference from $io

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Peters
within a +conditional statement, however, you will need to emulate the +functionality of $io with Cdefined($_ = $io-getline). Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH]Re: [perl #36417] IO::Handle::getline() doco should note an important difference from $io

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Peters
called in a -list context but still returns just one line. +list context but still returns just one line. If used as the conditional +within a Cwhile or C-style Cfor loop, however, you will need to +emulate the functionality of $io with Cdefined($_ = $io-getline). =item $io-getlines Steve Peters

[PATCH] Skip nit in t/op/lfs.t

2005-07-04 Thread Steve Peters
There's a skip message in t/op/lfs.t that tries to print out C$^0 (that's a zero) instead of C$^O (that's an o). Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- t/op/lfs.t.old 2002-12-01 21:29:18.0 -0600 +++ t/op/lfs.t 2005-07-04 10:05:24.0 -0500 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ # Known haves

Re: [perl #3451] coredump in map modifying input array

2005-07-05 Thread Steve Peters
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:28:49PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: On 5 Jul 2005 10:22:53 -, Steve Peters via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool! The new panic recently added caught this case. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl-fix$ ./perl rt_3451.pl panic: sv_upgrade to unknown type 255

Re: Debian bug #227621: getgrent out of memory

2005-07-05 Thread Steve Peters
suggest to try to reproduce with bleadperl; if fixed in blead, find and backport the fix. (should be straightforward :) I find the analysis by Steinar H. Gunderson quite interesting. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=227621msg=18 for his full analysis. Steve Peters

Re: rt.perl.org wedged?

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:51:07AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: For about a half hour now web requests to rt.perl.org are hanging. Same here. Pingable. Traceroute-able. Nothing doing on the web though. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replies to old bugs

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Peters
, and, if it prevents some nasty mail loops, I'm more than happy to hit the 'p' key. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replies to old bugs

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:04:52PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:57:21PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: Although many of the tickets I work on go through with little or no comment, and despite the occasional lambastings, copying p5p has prevented me from shooting

Re: Replies to old bugs

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Peters
? I don't think that the tickets closed for a lack of information and/or responsiveness need to go to p5p, although the comment stating why it is closed is an important part of the ticket. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smoke [5.9.3] 25093 FAIL(F) openbsd 3.7 (macppc/1 cpu)

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Peters
are run from a shell-script that loops over them. Is this a BSD issue or a perl issue? Beside a few initial bumps with OpenBSD 3.7, I've not had any major issues with the smokes. In fact, my last failed smoke was about three weeks ago. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smoke [5.9.3] 25093 FAIL(F) openbsd 3.7 (macppc/1 cpu)

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Peters
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:56:39PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:33:21AM +0200, Abe Timmerman wrote: Op een mooie zomerdag (Friday 08 July 2005 01:03),schreef Abe Timmerman: ... The t/io/*.t failures (on all mij bsd/darwin systems) do not show up if I run

Re: [perl #17487] ncftp only handles http

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Peters
farther up the list as well. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #2269] unpack(NaN) big baddaboom

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Peters
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:09:07PM -0700, Michael G Schwern via RT wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Mar 06 02:33:55 2000]: Running following program causes Floating point exception on FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE *and* 4.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Feb 29 02:11:52 AST 2000 (but not on Linux 2.3.44 #12 SMP)

Re: fchmod, fchown, fchdir

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Peters
, I would guess that doing it would be just fine. :) Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] Final (hopefully) fix for fchdir

2005-07-18 Thread Steve Peters
I noticed the blead's were still failing for HP-UX and AIX and ran a few tests on HP testdrive systems to see what was happening. There is a syntax error in code that did not previously compile. Below is the patch that will compile on HP-UX. Enjoy, Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH] Convert t/op/vec.t to test.pl

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Peters
The attached patch converts t/op/vec.t to use test.pl for handling its test cases rather than doing everything through Cprint statements. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- t/op/vec.t.old Sat Feb 15 01:37:09 2003 +++ t/op/vec.t Wed Jul 20 08:02:56 2005 @@ -1,91 +1,90 @@ #!./perl -print

Re: [PATCH] support POSIX SA_SIGINFO

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Peters
((SV*)rv); 2723PUSHs(newSVpv((void*)sip, sizeof(*sip))); 2724 } 2725 } 2726 } 2727 #endif Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] id est is i.e.

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Peters
Sorry, but this is a pet peeve. The proper abbreviation for id est is i.e., not ie. or ie. ARRRAGAGAFASD! Sorry, I feel better now. Attached is a patch to fix the included pod files. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pod/perlfunc.pod.old2005-07-26 20:21:51.0 -0500 +++ pod

[PATCH] Squish warnings in POSIX.xs

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Peters
to sigaction.sa_handler. It seems to like Cvoid *, so that's what we can give it. It's paassing its tests from what I can see, but we'll see how the smokes do on platforms other than Linux and OpenBSD. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs.old Tue Jul 19 16:46:37 2005 +++ ext

Re: [PATCH] Squish warnings in POSIX.xs

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:06:24PM +0100, Robin Barker wrote: -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

[PATCH] perlfunc.pod grammar fixes

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Peters
This patch has it all: passive voice removals; spelling fixes; which vs. that change; e.g. fixes; and etc. Thanks to Pod::Simple::RTF and and handy grammar checker, this was all made much easier. Enjoy! Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pod/perlfunc.pod.old2005-07-27 11:57

Re: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod grammar fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Peters
algorithm may not persist into future Perls, but the ability to characterize the input or output in implementation independent ways quite probably will. See Lsort. Removed. Attached below is the updated patch. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pod/perlfunc.pod.old2005-07-27 11:57

Re: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod grammar fixes

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Peters
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:32:56AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:55:17AM +0200, Piotr Fusik wrote: I have doubts about the following changes: Clearly, I need to read my mailbox completely after waking up in the morning :-/ Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smoke [5.9.3] 25248 FAIL(F) openbsd 3.7 (i386/1 cpu)

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Peters
143 ok 144 ok 145 ok 146 not ok 147 %.0g -0.0 -0 0 # No minus ok 148 ok 149 ok 150 ok 151 Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] Fix a couple of random warnings

2005-08-09 Thread Steve Peters
! Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- nostdio.h.old 2003-04-16 16:25:36.0 -0500 +++ nostdio.h 2005-08-09 06:09:00.0 -0500 @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ #define _flsbuf(c,f) _CANNOT _flsbuf_ #define fdopen(fd,p) _CANNOT _fdopen_ #define fileno(f) _CANNOT _fileno_ -#if SFIO_VERSION

[PATCH] POD nit in perlvar.pod

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Peters
And who says spending time on #perl is a waste of time. Following nit found while investigating some particularly nasty code. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pod/perlvar.pod.old Sun Aug 7 05:39:09 2005 +++ pod/perlvar.pod Tue Aug 23 14:48:03 2005 @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ =item C$2

Re: [Fwd: CPAN Upload: J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-0.47.tar.gz]

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Peters
reference to `sv_setpvf' util.c:(.text+0x5bd0): undefined reference to `sv_catpvf' util.c:(.text+0x5c5c): undefined reference to `sv_catpvf' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [miniperl] Error 1 Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #37029] Perl bug - help

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Peters
are the results different in 5.8.5 from 5.8.0? Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #37029] Perl bug - help

2005-08-31 Thread Steve Peters
=24753 An updated Perl with this patch may also be available from RedHat/Fedora. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mentoring new perl 5 porters

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Peters
test files. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #32884] API doc for SvUTF8

2005-09-12 Thread Steve Peters
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:41:23PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Steve Peters via RT wrote: Acutally, everything looking a return value from SvFLAGS(sv) should be looking for a U32. Since I'd like to automate these changes as much as possible, how does the following look? Fine

Re: 5.8.8

2005-09-12 Thread Steve Peters
. But I believe that little else does. The only other exception would be changes to re-entrant functions through reentr.pl, where the generated code is quite different than that in bleadperl. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Storable 2.15 on OSX 10.4 with maintperl fails make test

2005-09-14 Thread Steve Peters
this on? The actually cause of the problem lies in how Scalar::Utils is built. The implementation you have was built without compiling the XS portion of Scalar::Utils. If you do a fresh install of Scalar::Utils, the problems are fixed. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #37168] Bug in HTTP::Message-parse()

2005-09-15 Thread Steve Peters
provided. I'd suggest adding on the the bug report available at: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13025 Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VMS fix required by Change 25387

2005-09-18 Thread Steve Peters
feel guilty! Thanks, applied as change #25474 Any win32 people that can test for the win32env? -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only I've not had any problems with Win32 today, but I don't normally build on it. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #37223] File::Find::find fails on Win32 with follow = 1

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Peters
on that OS. Seems quite sensible. Is this a new problem ? I can't believe nobody noticed it until now... If its new, then I'm probably the one who broke it. Can you see which versions that it is now broken on? Or did it just hit another bug previously. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #37223] File::Find::find fails on Win32 with follow = 1

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Peters
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:29:25AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:57:31PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Steve Hay (via RT) wrote: The File::Find::find() function fails on Win32 if the follow = 1 option is specified. Presumably follow (and follow_fast

Re: Smoke [5.8.7] 25531 FAIL(F) openbsd 3.7 (i386/1 cpu)

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Peters
): ../ext/B/t/xref.t...FAILED--expected 14 tests, saw 2 Both sets of failures should be resolved by patches integrated into maintperl today. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] Changes for hints/linux.sh for Purify

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Peters
that Configure will probe for when it is run with a -DPURIFY argument. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- hints/linux.sh.old 2005-08-18 09:17:47.0 -0500 +++ hints/linux.sh 2005-09-23 08:38:08.0 -0500 @@ -315,3 +315,13 @@ ;; esac EOCBU + +# Purify fails to link Perl if a -lc

[PATCH] Fix to PERL_DEBUG_COW

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Peters
Change #25571 has caused the smokes to be broken when building with -DPERL_DEBUG_COW. The following patch fixes the builds. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- sv.h.old2005-09-22 10:02:52.0 -0500 +++ sv.h2005-09-23 13:05:24.0 -0500 @@ -887,11 +887,6 @@ # define

Re: kill mv-if-diff?

2005-09-24 Thread Steve Peters
-if-diff, but the biggest issue was just having correct dependencies in the Makefile. My thoughts are that mv-if-diff is just a symptom of a different problem in the Makefile where more targets and dependencies are needed. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smoke [5.8.7] 25589 FAIL(m) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP2 (x86/2 cpu)

2005-09-24 Thread Steve Peters
of the core files are built. Then, config.h is recreated forcing a recompile of all the files that depend on config.h. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[perl #25244] message upon not finding the file

2004-10-11 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri Jan 23 18:34:11 2004]: perl doesn't say perl: $ perl a Can't open perl script a: No such file or directory bash doesn't say bash, and says 'a' twice: $ bash a a: a: No such file or directory Both make it tough to figure out where the message came from, when

[perl #30858] -wi but no file

2004-10-11 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Jul 28 09:52:39 2004]: $ man perlrun $ perl -p -i'.orig' -e 1 file1 file2 file3... No need for quotes here. Finally, the -i switch does not impede execution when no files are given on the command line. In this case, no

[perl #19966] Re: Net::Ping patch for ICMP and Windows

2004-10-17 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri Jan 10 15:18:42 2003]: ... Well, I applied your patch. The changes have been applied Net::Ping and the module is in the newer Perl version. This ticket will be closed.

[perl #23605] [patch] 5.8.0 CGI::Carp.pm -- fatalsToBrowser() - Better admin email check

2004-10-17 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Aug 27 01:42:02 2003]: 2003-08-27 Wed Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Carp.pm (fatalsToBrowser): Better checking for $ENV{SERVER_ADMIN}. If there is no @, then do not make mailto: HREF.

[perl #24473] LWP installation with perl-5.8.1 has problems

2004-09-27 Thread Steve Peters via RT
Although LWP is certainly one of the most installed modules, it is not part of the core for Perl, so this is not a perlbug. This may be a bug in LWP, however, and you should refile this bug at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=libwww-perl.

[perl #16942] taint and regex problem

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[rafael - Mon Sep 02 15:33:12 2002]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.9.0. - [Please enter your report here] The following script prints

[perl #17777] sprintf and printf handle format inconsistently

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Oct 07 07:17:39 2002]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.6.1. - [Please enter your report here] At a minimum, this

[perl #22228] perl5.8 segfaults on fclose/fflush with Term::ReadLine

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri May 16 17:05:37 2003]: This is a bug 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] perl 5.8 on

[perl #31730] IO::File reads garbage from directory filehandles

2004-09-30 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[ni-s - Tue Sep 28 05:52:47 2004]: Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:12, Steve Peters via RT wrote: The decision of whether a directory can be accessed as a file is very operating system dependent, even among POSIX systems. [... demonstration that some

[perl #1803] IPC::Open3 calls die, not exit, on exec failure

2004-10-02 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Nov 18 08:47:27 1999]: - [Please enter your report here] In IPC::Open3.pm, version 1.0101, line 188/189, there is the following code. exec @cmd or croak open3:

[perl #31997] [PATCH]'perldoc -oman' is incorrectly rendered under Cygwin.

2004-10-19 Thread Steve Peters via RT
not get your change to work because the pager /usr/bin/less is first in the @pagers array and used. I did, however, get it to work with unshift @pagers, '/usr/bin/less -isrR'; It does make nice, easy to read perldoc's on Cygwin, so it'd be great to get this in. A patch is included. Steve Peters

[perl #30858] -wi but no file

2004-10-21 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Oct 11 16:51:03 2004]: $ man perlrun $ perl -p -i'.orig' -e 1 file1 file2 file3... No need for quotes here. Overquoters. Yuck. Finally, the -i switch does not impede execution when no files are given on the command line. Well, maybe emit a warning if -w is

[perl #31936] perlvar: mention how to get basename of $0

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Oct 11 13:12:57 2004]: On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:46:21PM -, Dan Jacobson wrote: # New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson # Please include the string: [perl #31936] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

[perl #31937] perlop: add basic =~ examples

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Oct 11 13:02:04 2004]: On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:48:11PM -, Dan Jacobson wrote: # New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson # Please include the string: [perl #31937] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

[perl #31903] perlre /x modifier documentation

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri Oct 08 22:03:10 2004]: snip OK, but then show how to comment and whitespace the substitution, or mention that that is not possible. Several examples on how to use /x are available in perlretut. Please consult it for examples on how to use the /x flag.

[perl #27886] for any perl thing, perldoc -f should cough up some tip

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Mar 23 19:05:15 2004]: Gentlemen, from the point of view of mediocre me, with perldoc -f, for some things one can at least get clues about where to look: $ perldoc -f tr tr/// The transliteration operator. Same as y///. See perlop. $ perldoc -f y

[perl #31227] perldoc -f, -q ignores extra arguments with no notice

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Aug 18 15:59:12 2004]: Gentlemen, would you look at that. Perldoc is ignoring additional arguments without any qualms: $ perldoc -f no-op noop No documentation for perl function `no-op' found $ perldoc -q no-op noop No documentation for perl FAQ keyword `no-op'

[perl #30227] [PATCH]splain vs. -w

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Jun 13 16:10:35 2004]: D It's in that paragraph I just quoted you above No, it, -w, is not. It's in the paragraph below: D It takes the messages produced by -w, augmenting them with the more D explicative and endearing descriptions found in the

[perl #2211] malfunction of die in special case

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Feb 24 19:05:46 2000]: Hi everybody, I encounter strange behavior of exception mechanismus under specific conditions. When I use CGI.pm module and use strict and file upload is in progres and I throw exception using die something. The content of exception, scalar

[perl #2996] Entrypoint not found in Perl56.dll on NT4.0

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Apr 03 03:20:32 2000]: I have Perl installed on a Windows NT4.0 server, and every time Perl.exe is executed, the error 'The procedure entrypoint RunPerl could not be located in the dynamic link library Perl56.dll'. This totally prevents Perl from running on that

[perl #3229] PERL dumps core after XML-Encoding-1.01 test.pl completes

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
bash$ cd CPAN/build/XML-Encoding-1.01 bash$ myperl test.pl 1..7 ok 1 ok 2 ok 3 ok 4 ok 5 ok 6 ok 7 Segmentation fault (core dumped) I traced it in perl -d: main::(test.pl:101):print ok 7\n; ok 7 Carp::(/home/jmilton/base-NB386/perl5/lib/5.6.0/Carp.pm:97): 97: { local

[perl #3303] local *DIRHANDLE doesn't close when out of scope

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue May 30 02:05:20 2000]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. - [Please enter your report here] local (*DH);

[perl #3716] Bug suspected w strftime and DST

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Aug 16 01:36:42 2000]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. - [Please enter your report here] It appears I've

[perl #7328] IO::Pty objects and the -t operator

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Jul 23 11:54:27 2001]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0. - Hi List, this mail tries to report a bug with

[perl #7641] Help!

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Sep 06 00:19:51 2001]: I have never installed Perl before and I am trying to install perl 5.6.1 on an AIX 4.3.3 server. I am getting a syntax error when running the 'Configure' script. I need some assistance. Please help. Melvin Riddick AIX System Administrator

[perl #22228] perl5.8 segfaults on fclose/fflush with Term::ReadLine::Gnu

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[stmpeters - Tue Sep 28 05:45:38 2004]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Fri May 16 17:05:37 2003]: This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.

[perl #21549] PerlIO+FileHandle+Term::ReadLine::Gnu causes segmentation fault

2004-10-24 Thread Steve Peters via RT
The previously installed versions of Term::Readline::Gnu had a few issues which caused core dumps. Although it is not a core module, I'd suggest reinstalling the newest version.

[perl #23320] Perl.exe crash

2004-10-24 Thread Steve Peters via RT
The error is being caused by an error in one of the ActiveState modules used to install PPMs. This is not a part of the Perl core. If you are still having this issue with the newer versions of Perl, I'd open a ticket with ActiveState.

[perl #24648] Test failure in Math::BigInteger from CPAN

2004-10-25 Thread Steve Peters via RT
I just noticed that this ticket was about Math::BigInteger and not Math::BigInt. Math::BigInteger was last modified in 1996. A lot has changed in Perl since then. But, Math::BigInteger is not a part of the Perl core and not supported through perlbug. I'd suggest moving to Math::BigInt which

[perl #28381] bug in cpan.pm on Windows where environment variables are upper case

2004-10-25 Thread Steve Peters via RT
# In Windows all environment variables are upper case. That doesn't seem to be the case from my experience. Now, different Windows versions all behave differently, so, I might not have the right mix of OS, but, on Windows XP, ... F:\set foo=BAR F:\c:\perl\bin\perl -eprint $ENV{foo} . \\n\

[perl #24853] Test::Builder's diag function is mistakely adding #'s (or not adding newlines)

2004-10-25 Thread Steve Peters via RT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Thu Jan 08 05:18:53 2004]: $Test-diag(1,2,3,4); yields # 1# 2# 3# 4 which is not right. It seems like the intent was for each argument to be a line, so it should yield something like: # 1 # 2 # 3 # 4 The fix is to modify the

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