Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:07:04 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 269 ************************************************** Wednesday 28 January 2004 Number 269 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Problems downloading perl 5.8.0 : Dave and Natalie" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:13:52 -0800 From: "Dave and Natalie" Subject: Re: Problems downloading perl 5.8.0 On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:33:41 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: >On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:50:08PM -0500, Jack Troughton wrote: > >> I went looking at perl.com (maintained by O'Reilly) but they don't have >> a source zip for perl 5.8.0. >> >> Any ideas where I can lay my hands on one, or should I go use something >> like perl 5.8.3? > >That is what I suggested yesterday. It looks like 5.8.0 has been >superceeded. You could be the first person to have 5.8.3 working on OS/2 ;-) I decided to try building 5.8.3 after seeing that Ilya had submitted a big patch. (http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ilya+os/2+perl+8.2+download&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm= 200401020000.i02000UU021069%40smtp3.ActiveState.com&rnum=4) and http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&threadm=20031218221029.GA7898%4 0math.berkeley.edu&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26client%3Dgoogle t%26q%3Dilya%2Bos%252F2%2Bperl%2B8.2%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg Built fine using uxbs, just changed build.table to point at .8.3 instead of .8.0. Results are Failed 5/867 test scripts, 99.42% okay. 10/79051 subtests failed, 99.99% okay. Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lib/os2_base.t 1 256 19 1 5.26% 8 lib/os2_process.t 5 1280 232 5 2.16% 2 10 19 34 103 op/alarm.t 4 2 50.00% 1-2 op/magic.t 53 1 1.89% 6 op/stat.t 78 1 1.28% 44 67 tests and 636 subtests skipped. Which seems quite good. Interestingly I can't get it to build on my build system, need to investigate the differences Dave New Email Address - please update your Address book dave_yeo at paralynx.com _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs