So, when is 5.6.1 scheduled to release?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:45 PM
> To: Jordan Henderson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: testing Perl (was RE: VMS Perl bug (?) report)
>
>
> At 03:29 PM 7/24/00 -0400, Jordan Henderson wrote:
> >I complained a lot about the state of Perl recently, but I
> do realize that if
> >Perl is to work for _me_ then _I_ had better help bake the bread.
> >
> >Can all those who have made patches necessary for 5.6.0 or
> know of patches that
> >are needed for 5.6.1 (for example, the one that Dan Sugalski
> dug up for the guy
> >whose perl wouldn't start due to an environment problem
> hanging Perl startup,
> >email about this one is attached) speak up? I'll promise to
> put together a
> >system that I'll test all my stuff against.
>
> Peter offers instructions for building the closest thing to
> an up-to-date
> test kit at:
>
<http://www.best.com/~pvhp/vms/cfgperl_6409/>
That should include all the patches to 5.6.0, though I can't guarantee
everything is in there. Actually, a quick check shows that Chuck Lane's
piping stuff is *not* in there. Charles Bailey was, in his words, "working
them into the repository," but had also expressed some doubt about the
AST-reentrancy of the C RTL that Chuck's code depends on. I don't remember
when Charles said he would return from his month away with other duties or
whether it will be before 5.6.1 goes final.
>Subject: RE: Perl hangs on OpenVMS
I think pretty much all of the posts on this subject, including mine, have
been wrong. We don't really know for sure whether it is a Perl bug or a VMS
rightslist /$getjpi bug, but I suspect the latter. If Dan did in fact come
up with patches I have not seen them posted here. I have looked long and
hard at Charles Bailey's original code and it looks good to me. His
suggested fix from Nov. '98 (which I repeated) does not look right since it
assigns a value that will immediately be overwritten by the $getjpiw call.
The poster of the original query in Nov. '98 says that his problem derived
from having no system identifiers defined:
<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/vmsperl/1998-12/msg00013.html>
I don't know if this was the case for the more recent problem. If so,
perhaps what we need is a panic test and abort after executing the loop in
vms_image_init() a few thousand times.
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