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Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:02:19PM -0400, Steve Coleman wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:59:56PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> 
>>
>>>Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 um 17:23 schriebst du:
>>>   
>>>
>>>I am still unable to build Perl and I haven't found the problem yet.
>>>I'm seeking for volunteers to help tracking down this problem.
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>I'm sorry but I don't find inability to build things to be an obstacle
>>to release.  We can always release a new version of cygwin if it really
>>is a problem.
>>
>>The only obstacles I can think of is if some important DLL or library
>>wasn't yet ported to 1.5.1 or if some existing program was misbehaving.
>
>For what it's worth I have been unable to run the latest release of
>Perl (5.8.0-3) under WinME, but it seems to work fine under Win2k.  The
>problem I see is the dll's as distributed under cygwin-multi-64
>directory with that release cause errors when trying to run the CPAN
>utility (perl -MCPAN -e shell).  I am unable to install anything out of
>the CPAN archive in that way.  I just get pop-up boxes saying 'error in
><some>.dll' and then the system hangs or crashes randomly after that,
>but it doesn't crash unless I run Perl 5.8.0-3 first.

rebaseall

cgf


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