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Updated: perl-5.8.6-2


Perl has been updated to 5.8.6-2

This is a bugfix release, it should work with Win98 now.
Cygwin specific README was included.

Modules already included in this distribution
    Archive-Tar-1.23
    Compress-Zlib-1.33
    MD5-2.03
    IO-String-1.06
    IO-Zlib-1.04
    Net-Telnet-3.03
    Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203
    TermReadKey-2.21
    XML-Parser-2.34


INFO ==== - New DLL naming schema: only the major release number is included in the DLL name so extensions compiled with this release doesn't need to be recompiled immediatly for future updates of perl 5.8. - New directory naming: extensions are now under /usr/lib/perl5/5.8, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 (/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 for all extensions distributed with this release) and the archive directory is simply named 'cygwin' instead of 'cygwin-thread-multi-64int'. - This release includes the Win32CORE extension statically. - IPC support is enabled, however to make use of it, it is required to have cygserver running, see the cygserver README in /usr/doc/Cygwin how to setup / run cygserver. - there are still some issues with PERLIO, best bet is to use binary mounted directories, define PERLIO=perlio in your environment, with this environment setting nearly all tests are passing when running on NTFS. - Perl 5.8.6 should be binary compatible with Cygwin perl >= 5.8.2, if you are seeing problems with older extensions, please try to recompile these at first.


Perl 5.8.6 announcements:


http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.6.html

5.8.6 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various
minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.6/pod/perl586delta.pod for
the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the
build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early
to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly.


DESCRIPTION =========== As always, you should conduct an appropriate level of testing before using any new product in your production environment.

Canonical website: http://www.perl.org/


UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'perl' from the 'Interpreters' category, if you install it for the first time, click on the 'skip' field next to 'perl' until '5.8.6-2' is displayed.


DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html


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