People forget that I'm perl 5.005 pumpkin. The other pumpkins are being a bit slack about actually releasing, so I've decided to put out a maintenance release of Perl 5.005:
Perl 5.005 is a great version of Perl and still used by many people.
There have been a few distribution updates and tool changes which mean
that it no longer compiles cleanly everywhere, so I believe it's time
for a maintenance release of perl5.005, which will lead to
perl5.005_05.
Read the rest on perl5-porters.
Not Sure
chromatic on 2007-06-03T17:07:31
People who haven't upgraded from a Perl version released 9 years ago are going to upgrade?
Or is this for people who want to build this ancient Perl to test code on it for their dinosaur clients? (I tried to build 5.6.1 the other day; it had a small problem.)
PASS!
drhyde on 2007-06-04T13:39:35
All tests pass on OpenBSD 3.5 i386.
FAIL!
drhyde on 2007-06-04T13:42:28
One test file failed on Debian lenny/sid:
Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lib/db-recno.t 181 5 2.76% 87, 91, 94-95, 98
3 tests skipped, plus 31 subtests skipped.
when Configured with -de.
Re:FAIL!
speters on 2007-06-04T13:59:27
There are a couple of patches that need to be applied to 5.005 that are out in Perlbug. Please see RT #27188 for more details. I'd be happy to apply them if you wish.
FAIL on DEC Alpha
n1vux on 2007-06-05T03:26:07
on DEC Alpha with Debian 3.0 (64bit),
./Config -des && make && make test
fails two tests -
lib/db-btree.......Can't locate DB_File.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
../lib) at lib/db-btree.t line 21.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at lib/db-btree.t line 21.
FAILED at test 0
lib/db-hash........skipping test on this platform
lib/db-recno.......skipping test on this platform
op/cmp.............FAILED at test 0
Let me know if you need detailed output of those tests, or Config.pm info, or full job output, etc - or if a different set of Config options is advisable.
I'm doing 'make clean' and then run again without args to
./Config.
Bill
