Re: Building Perl 5.8.2 on Cygwin/Win2k

I also get these, except the taint.t one which was a problem with the test and is fixed in 5.8.3. I think all three are related to large file support (which IIRC is new in Cygwin with the 1.5.x series). I've spent a little time looking at them, but not enough to determine if cygwin or perl is at fault.

You are in a maze of twisty little perlio layers, all alike

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Re: Re: Building Perl 5.8.2 on Cygwin/Win2k by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jan 16, 2004 at 19:21 UTC
So, how do you get past it? ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Building Perl 5.8.2 on Cygwin/Win2k by ysth (Canon) on Jan 18, 2004 at 04:15 UTC
make install Update: I've been meaning to get around to checking on just how bad the problem is in practice (i.e. does it actually affect seeking on small files as well as large ones?) and if there is a workaround to build perl as if large file support wasn't there, but haven't got around to it. Also been meaning to pester Gerrit (the cygwin perl maintainer) and some of the PerlIO gurus to look into it more...but I've been wasting my free time here at perlmonks instead :)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Building Perl 5.8.2 on Cygwin/Win2k by ysth (Canon) on Jan 20, 2004 at 00:29 UTC
The op/lfs failure goes away with cygwin 1.5.6-1. The op/tell failure seems to be happening in 5.8.x but not in bleadperl; if I get a chance I'll look more into it.	[reply]