Dave Mitchell posted the following announcement on perl5-porters

I've just uploaded 5.10.1-RC1 to CPAN.

Once it's hit the mirrors it should be(*) available as

http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1-RC1.tar.gz

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So please everyone, test away!

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Re: Perl 5.10.1 RC1 released for testing
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2009 at 11:34 UTC
    Look ma, no tarballs :)

    Earlier I did 

    $ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git

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    Now to try out perl-5.10.1-RC1 
    $ git checkout perl-5.10.1-RC1
HEAD is now at d792035... today's merging activity

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    To see what changed from 5.10.0, perl-5.10.1-RC1/Changes says 
    git log --name-status perl-5.10.0^..perl-5.10.1 ^f7c6915850

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    But that doesn't quite work yet since there is no perl-5.10.1 tag yet, but these do 
    git log --name-status perl-5.10.0^..^f7c6915850
git log --name-status perl-5.10.0^..^perl-5.10.1-RC1
git log --name-status perl-5.10.0^..^d792035

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      Trying to build perl-5.10.1-RC1 with ActivePerl/MinGW-5.1.4.1.ppd supplied gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3), aborts the build with a segfault for generate_uudmap.exe. I've built bleadperl with the same setup; generate_uudmap also segfaulted, but that didn't stop the build from completing successfully. There is no problem building perl-5.10.1-RC1 with strawberry perl supplied gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw special).

      There are very few test failures, nothing serious 

      op/readline.t .................................................... 7/1
+8 # Failed at op/readline.t line 92
#      got 'main=ARRAY(0xa09644)es
# '
# expected /(?-xism:main=ARRAY.*world)/
# Failed at op/readline.t line 101
#      got 'A: world
# '
# expected 'A: One
# '
# Failed at op/readline.t line 102
#      got 'B: One
# '
# expected 'B: Two
# '
op/readline.t .................................................... Fai
+led 3/18 subtests

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      The same test fails in bleadperl :)

      Some tests are skipped because they use shell redirection without escaping

      Read more... (2 kB)

      My firewall complains that these tests want to listen on 0.0.0.0 

      ../ext/IO/t/io_multihomed.t
../ext/IO/t/io_sock.t

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      Many others tests listen on 127.0.0.1 without problems :)
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        Trying to build perl-5.10.1-RC1 with ActivePerl/MinGW-5.1.4.1.ppd supplied gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3), aborts the build with a segfault for generate_uudmap.exe.

        This problem seems to arise for some builds of MinGW but not others - the version of the mingw-runtime being used seems to be the most likely culprit. In the win32/makefile.mk you'll find the line: 
        LIBC        = -lmsvcrt

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        Does it help if you comment out that line ? (Comment out with a '#' same as for perl.)
        There's a recent thread on p5p where that fix did work - but I'm not sure it's exactly the same problem.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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        'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

        I expect that the problem here is that you've stuck gzip.exe in a path that contains a space (namely, the space between "Program" and "Files"). Efforts are often made to cater for that type of OS/user bug .... buggered if I know why :-)
        For mine, the correct thing to do is to simply not put *anything* in a location that contains white space.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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Re: Perl 5.10.1 RC1 released for testing (Strawberry RC1 for windows now available)
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Aug 08, 2009 at 11:32 UTC
    Curtis Jewell has announced the availability of 5.10.1-RC1 Strawberry Perl for Windows:
    By the time this e-mail gets around to everybody, the .msi for a beta version of Strawberry Perl for Windows containing 5.10.1 RC1 will be uploaded - you can get it at http://strawberryperl.com/beta/ if you want to try it out.

    Hopefully this will let you test out the release candidate as it would be packaged as a Strawberry Perl package.

    Release notes are at http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.10.1-RC1.0.beta.html.

    Note that this IS a beta - it's not recommended for production environments quite yet.

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