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Re: perl 5.8.6
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:46:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: perl 5.8.6
- References: <41AE7F15.5030908@x-ray.at>
Reini Urban schrieb:
No need to hurry, Gerrit :)
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.6/pod/perl586delta.pod
This arrived yesterday.
Just wanted to know a rough timeframe and what you plan to do with the
DLL name, so that I can coordinate libwin32 and the Win32::GUI upgrades.
I want to seperate Win32::GUI from libwin32, and I want to contact Rafael.
We have to bite the bullet with the 5.8.5 dll dependency once.
Maybe I'll come up up a simplier upgrade solution, changing the dll's
binmode: s/cygperl5_8_2.dll/cygperl5_8.dll/g and moving it over.
Put this into the postinstall script to move all old CPAN libs to the
new site_perl?
Ok. I've written a script to upgrade site_perl to a new minor cygwin
perl release.
For consistency I would suggest to keep the cygperl5_8_6.dll name then.
We had this name it for 5.8.2 and 5.8.5.
It's at
<http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/contrib/cyg-site_perl-upgrade.pl>
cyg-site_perl-upgrade.pl 5.8.2 5.8.5
will upgrade from 5.8.2 to 5.8.5
and cyg-site_perl-upgrade.pl 5.8.5 5.8.6
will upgrade from 5.8.5 to 5.8.6
If you do a update your cygwin perl package to a new minor release and
the binary API didn't change, you might want to skip to rebuild each and
every custom package you installed via CPAN.
This script copies your /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.old to
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.new then.
It only works for minor upgrades, not for major ones, which changed the
perlxs API! In this case you have to re-install all your site packages.
cyg-site_perl-upgrade.pl old new:
* copies all old files over to the new library location.
* changes the cygperl dll name in each DLL under
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/$old
to the new name. 'cygperl_5_8_5.dll' => 'cygperl_5_8_6.dll'
* fixes .packlist to the new paths.
* fixes perllocal.pod (not yet)
* skips all files already installed in new, unless --overwrite is given.
Maybe I'll come to the pending Win32::API problem with the callbacks on
gcc also. A simple hack30-like solution should always be possible. Or a
fallback to C::Dynalib.
Win32::OLE didn't compile OOTB, but this is easy. Just forgot where I
put the patch.
And your /usr/include/iodbcunix.h was wrong. Had to patch it to compile
Win32::ODBC. Will send it later.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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