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Re: Perl 5.8.5 and libwin32 0.191-1 incompatibility


Michael W. J. West schrieb:
I recently followed the advice at
http://fairtomiddlin.blogspot.com/2004/09/cygwin.html
and noting:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-01/msg00011.html

and apparently got libwin32-0.191 patched and handcrafted to build for perl 5.8.5 on cygwin, pass many tests, and install. It ran about 250 tests and then noted that I am not on a Windows network, and stopped running tests. That was "good enough for me" (TM). After install,

I have also produced a patch file that will apply all the changes necessary to the original libwin32-0.191 , but it is almost 7 megs and gzips to about 2 megs. I can email it to interested parties, as well as

Great. Please send me the bzip2 patch. I will try to make a package then. (After talking to Rafael) -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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