first shot perl

[Charles Wilson]

Very nice.  I too am confused with the cgywin-multi.  Did you build 
using --with-multiplicity -- could that be it?  (If multiplicity is the 
reason for the cygwin-multi dir but you did not explicitly specify it, 
it's possible that multiplicity is now the default?)

(From perldoc perlcygwin):
"-Dusemultiplicity
Multiplicity is required when embedding perl in a C program and using 
more than one interpreter instance.  This works with the cygwin port."

BTW, you have to manually munge the /usr/bin/ld2 file, or end-users 
won't be able to build their own XC packages (mailer probably wrapped 
the second '-' line)

--- ld2 Mon Aug 20 20:05:18 2001
+++ /usr/bin/ld2        Thu Dec 21 16:50:28 2000
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
  #!/bin/sh
  #
  # ld wrapper for building dynamic lib version of perl;
-#  passes all args to perlld
+#  passes all args to /usr/bin/perlld
  #

  # own miniperl is first candidate 'cause it doesn not lock libperl.dll
-for trythis in /src/perl/CYGWIN-PATCHES/perl-5.6.1-gph-1/miniperl 
/src/perl/CYGWIN-PATCHES/perl-5.6.1-gph-1/perl perl
+for trythis in /usr/bin/perl
  do
    if [ -x $trythis ]
    then
-    $trythis /src/perl/CYGWIN-PATCHES/perl-5.6.1-gph-1/perlld "$@"
+    $trythis /usr/bin/perlld "$@"
      exit $?
    fi
  done


> I got one test failure with the op/groups.test:
> ===================
> Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> op/groups.t	               2    1  50.00%  1
> 8 tests and 94 subtests skipped.
> Failed 1/275 test scripts, 99.64% okay. 1/12830 subtests failed, 99.99% okay.


Hmmm....this sounds familiar.  Check the archives, I think there's an 
obvious explanation for this but I can't remember it right now.

Finally, every now and again an interesting perl bug report (e.g. 
*actual details* !!! on the textmode/binmode thing) comes across the 
cygwin mailing list.  I've filed those away on occasion, and can send 
you an mbox-format archive of "perl-pending" issues, if you're 
interested.  I don't guarantee that I've saved EVERY bug report, but it 
could be a place to start.  there are 9 or 10 post-5.6.1 threads. 
(Maybe you or perl5-porters have already fixed them, I dunno...remember 
that "our" current cygwin is based on 5.6.1-TRIAL1, not even on 
5.6.1-release)

--Chuck