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The pace, as they say, needs picking up. Most of us still seem lost in petty
arguments...
Then Bilbo sat down on a seat by his door, crossed his legs, and blew
out a beautiful grey ring of smoke that sailed up into the air without
breaking and floated away over The Hill.
`Very pretty!' said Gandalf. `But I have no time to blow smoke-rings
this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I
am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
`I should think so--in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and I have
no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make
you late for dinner!'
--An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit, J R R Tolkien
My appreciation and thanks to all the people who have worked towards these
changes:
+ Todo-5.6 covers things we need to get done for 5.6 and its maintenance
versions
+ support sprintf("v%v", v1.2.3) (works on any string argument, in
fact)
+ pad_alloc panic from C<my $w; sub { my($i) = @_; sub { $w } }> fixed
+ evals and anonymous subroutines have more informative names under the
debugger (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ parse error on C<{ use strict }> and other similar constructs has been
fixed
+ $^V is now aliased to $PERL_VERSION_TUPLE when you use English
+ "\x{FFF}" is allowed even without "use utf8"
+ $^U is now spelled $^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS; the -C command-line switch
can be used to set it
+ ${^Warnings} has been renamed to ${^WARNING_BITS}
+ $^E works a little bit more predictably on Windows when you enable
USE_IMP_SYS (the whole approach to its implementation is still fairly
broken, though)
+ compatible versions (specified in $Config{inc_ver_list}) will be added
to search paths automatically (Tom Hughes)
+ 64-bit utf8-encoded integers are allowed (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ the utf8 flag on vectors only if there are chars > 127 (Gisle Aas)
+ memory consumption of POSIX.pm reduced (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ CPAN.pm has been updated to v1.52 (Andreas Koenig)
+ Sys::Syslog goes the XS way (Tom Hughes)
+ OpenBSD hints updated (Todd Miller)
+ OS/2 build fixups (Ilya Zakharevich and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+ VMS update (Dan Sugalski and Peter Prymmer)
+ VOS port updates (Paul Green)
+ various documentation patches
Some things are broken:
- Configure sometimes decides to give up too easy. If this happens to
you, apply the attached patch.
- Perl's malloc appears to coredump on IRIX
- the Compiler is probably broken under usethreads
- C<while ($i++ < 10000) { my $i = *FOO }> appears to leak
Thanks.
Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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Change 5042 by gsar@auger on 2000/02/08 20:32:12
avoid exiting just because we didn't scan for libm ('libs' may still
have it, but we avoided scan for things in 'libs')
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/Configure#135 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/Configure#135 (xtext) ====
Index: perl/Configure
--- perl/Configure.~1~ Tue Feb 8 12:32:16 2000
+++ perl/Configure Tue Feb 8 12:32:16 2000
@@ -3738,18 +3738,6 @@
' '|'') dflt='none';;
esac
-case "$libsfound" in
-*libm*) ;;
-*) cat <<EOM >&4
-
-I could not find -lm, the mathematics library.
-This means that something went awfully wrong.
-
-EOM
- exit 1
- ;;
-esac
-
$cat <<EOM
In order to compile $package on your machine, a number of libraries
End of Patch.