perl-5.6.0-RC1

Notes:

• Binary kit compiled with:
  • cygipc-1.05
  • gdbm-1.8.0-1
  • db-2.7.7
  • gcc-2.95.2
  • make 3.78.1
  • cygwin-inst-20000304
  • cygwin1.dll-20000306
  • CYGWIN=binmode tty ntea
  • sh == bash 2.03.0(2)
  • built and installed as a normal user (not Administrator)
• I saved a lot of time on the build by copying this Policy file into the build directory, and executing "sh Configure -d | tee log.txt"
• Binary and modules are built unstripped.
• The source itself and the precompiled binary both rely on fixes and features in the newer cygwin kernels. You can't build or use perl-5.6.0 with stock B20.1 (easily). Your best bet, if you're using CygwinB20, is to install perl5.005_62 from the B20 branch.

News

• 2000-Mar-13: perl-5.6.0-RC1 (release candidate) available.
• 2000-Mar-13: The following modules are available:
  • Miscellaneous:
    • String-CRC-1.0
    • String-CRC32-1.2
  • Database Access:
    • Data-ShowTable-3.3
    • DBI-1.13
    • Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2210
  • libwww:
    • URI-1.05
    • MIME-Base64-2.11
    • HTML-Parser-3.06
    • libnet-1.0701
    • Digest-MD5-2.09
    • libwww-perl-5.47
  • libxml-enno:
    • XML-Parser-2.27
    • Parse-Yapp-1.00
    • DateManip-5.37
    • libxml-perl-0.07
    • XML-Grove-0.46alpha
    • libwww
    • libxml-enno-1.00
  • DTDparse:
    • DelimMatch-1.04
    • libxml-enno
    • libwww
    • DTDparse-2.0b2 (not a true module, just a collection of perl scripts.

Download:

• perl-5.6.0-RC1-cygwin1.1-patch.tar.gz
  • 53502 bytes
  • 53a138f7b6da7ce55e3b2385ebb17c6e *perl-5.6.0-RC1-cygwin1.1-patch.tar.gz
  • No patches needed. This package contains build-logs, my build recipe, etc.
• perl-5.6.0-RC1-cygwin1.1.README
  • 7054 bytes
  • f3afa032b2e2cd679a26795f9fa5abcd *perl-5.6.0-RC1-cygwin1.1.README
  • Not really a readme -- it's actually my build recipe, for both perl and the modules. YMMV.
• perl-5.6.0-RC1-cygwin1.1.tar.bz2
  • 6641090 bytes
  • f998c1b5fa3dffe7d015fd29dfc0f284 *perl-5.6.0-RC1-cygwin1.1.tar.bz2
  • the binary kit.
• perl-5.6.0-RC1.tar.gz
  • 5441466 bytes
  • 74bf3dc5f7943bcbbce96e4301053954 *perl-5.6.0-RC1.tar.gz
  • the pristine source

Install the binary package

1. cd to /
2. unpack the binary distribution. It will install itself into /usr/local/lib/perl5, usr/local/man, and /usr/local/bin.
3. you're done.

Build from source

1. unpack the original source distribution from cpan.org in /usr/local/src
2. unpack the patchkit somewhere else
3. cd /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.0-RC1
4. NT only: chmod -R +w *
5. read perl-5.6.0-RC1/README.cygwin32

Test results:

I cheated a little bit. I copied cygwin1.dll into the <PERL-SRC>/t directory to avoid the op/taint errors. I do not recommend this for general installations.

Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lib/io_poll.t                 8    1  12.50%  4
lib/odbm.t                   64    1   1.56%  2
op/grent.t                    1    1 100.00%  1
4 tests and 54 subtests skipped.
Failed 3/236 test scripts, 98.73% okay. 3/11823 subtests failed, 99.97% okay.

Precompiled modules

Only for perl-5.6.0-RC1. Do not use with any other version. To install these modules, use the rpm package available here. These modules have been recompiled for perl-5.6.0-RC1, since the installation path is different for each perl development release.

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