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Re: Perl 5.7.2
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Perl 5.7.2
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:07:10 +0200
- Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> John Peacock schrieb am 2001-10-08 9:30:
>"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>>
>> I don't think that it is a good idea to bundle an 'unstable' development
>> version. Perl 5.8 will be released soon and then it will be 'stable'.
>> We should wait until 5.8.
>>
>
>It is especially inappropriate to include Perl 5.7.2 (or 5.8.0) until
>it will build/test without core dumps when Perl is built for debugging.
>See
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg00067.html
>
>for more details. By downgrading to CygWin 1.3.2-2, I was able to
>get around the problems with gdb refusing to break at statements, but
>I am still getting cores for roughly a third of the overall tests
>during the perl_destruct phase. I am unable to replicate it while
>running under gdb, so I am at a loss where to go next. I will post
>another message with more details.
Howdy,
I've not seen this posting. I think I should try to build
bleadperl with debugging again.
Have you tried with a recent snapshot cygwin1.dll or CVS version?
I will try it at the weekend with latest cygwin sources from CVS.
Gerrit
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