Re: cygutils perl-5.6.0: symlink? mod_perl?

["Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Tom Roche wrote:
> 
> I work on a web-based project using Perl and Apache. We have committed
> to running on Solaris, Linux, and NT4/5, and so far, we do, even with
> mod_perl. We've encountered platform differences with rand, sprintf,
> etc, but have been able to find portable workarounds.
> 
> We've got some new code that uses Perl's symlink, which unfortunately
> is not supported (by CPAN Perl anyway, per perlport) on win32. However
> I'm aware of Cygwin's symlink hack, so I'm wondering:
> 
> Does the Cygutils perl-5.6.0 support symlink? 

Yep.  The symlink regression test is io/fs.t test #2.

/usr/local/src/perl-5.6.0/t > ./perl harness io/fs.t
io/fs...............ok                                                       
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=29,  3 wallclock secs ( 0.70 cusr +  1.59 csys =  2.29
CPU)

> Alternatively, if anyone
> knows of a Perl module that does soft links portably, I'd like to
> know.
> 
> If cygutils perl-5.6.0 does symlink: has anyone run it under Apache
> with mod_perl? If so, how? Is there a Cygwin build of Apache? I didn't
> see one at
> 
> http://cygutils.netpedia.net/V1.1/index.html
> 

Take a look at the cygwin porting project:

http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/

They've got an apache port, but I don't know about mod_perl.

--Chuck

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