Re: Re: Re: Building 5.8.1-RC2 with BCC5.5

LOL. Grr. LOL. You can always ask here. Test::Smoke (I believe i've mentioned it before).

smoke perl
- http://qa.perl.org/
  - The "smokers" does smoke tests of the bleading edge Perl on various platforms to help the developers spot new bugs as fast as possibly.
    Get involved by subscribing to the daily-build list by sending mail to daily-build-subscribe@perl.org (Web archive and nntp server). After subscribing you would probably like to get the Smoke toolkit, see the README for information on that.

That readme's a little dated, alls you need is Test::Smoke. If you smoke perl, you can detect when things go wrong immediately ;)

As for the linked patches, yup, apply those -- but ultimatly they still fail. Too bad nobody's consistently smoking on borland (dang, my "c" key is broke, alt+99 grrr, and e is dying, GRRR;)

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Building 5.8.1-RC2 with BCC5.5 by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 18, 2003 at 11:04 UTC
Okay PodMaster thanks for your help. I tried the patches and arrived at the same place. I think I have worked out How to build a version of 5.8.1 with BCC5.5 that works. No large file support or PerlIO. I'm part way through tracking down the appropriate borland api's to enable large file support. I haven't begun looking into the PerlIO stuff yet but I will. If I succeed, I will post the results here if anyone else indicated that they are interested. <rant> Ah! Email lists, email servers, email wrappers. No good to me, I won't use them/those/that. Why do the same people that bitch about spam, contribute to the network degradation by insisting on sending everything to everyone? Why can't the information simply be placed in a central place and when I'm ready to look at it, I go look at it in that central place. When I want to contribute, I send an email to that central place and it gets added to the list of information and the next time other people look, they see it. Bah! I give up. </rant> Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Building 5.8.1-RC2 with BCC5.5
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 18, 2003 at 11:04 UTC

Okay PodMaster thanks for your help. I tried the patches and arrived at the same place. I *think* I have worked out

How to build a version of 5.8.1 with BCC5.5 that works. No large file support or PerlIO.
I'm part way through tracking down the appropriate borland api's to enable large file support.

I haven't begun looking into the PerlIO stuff yet but I will.

If I succeed, I will post the results here *if* anyone else indicated that they are interested.

<rant>

Ah! Email lists, email servers, email wrappers.

No good to me, I won't use them/those/that.

Why do the same people that bitch about spam, contribute to the network degradation by insisting on sending everything to everyone? Why can't the information simply be placed in a central place and when I'm ready to look at it, I go look at it in that central place.

When I want to contribute, I send an email to that central place and it gets added to the list of information and the next time other people look, they see it.

Bah! I give up.

</rant>

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller

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MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.