Greetings,

I have built 5.8.RC1 on my wintel NTSP6 box (smooth)

I am now trying to reapply the bundle of what is already installed on my good ole 5.6.1 - and this is not going very smoothly. Until now I have been unable to build Archive::Tar and Tk (surely others will pop up).

• Archive::Tar errors like this:
  

  D:\home\alf\.cpan58\build\Archive-Tar-0.22>nmake test
  
  ...
  cp Tar.pm blib\lib\Archive\Tar.pm
          D:\perl58\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e cp ptar blib\scr
  +ipt\ptar
          pl2bat.bat blib\script\ptar
          D:\perl58\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
  1..10
  ok 1
  ok 2
  ok 3
  Can't call method "gzwrite" on an undefined value at blib\lib/Archive/
  +Tar.pm line 493.
  NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\perl58\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0xf
  +f'
  Stop.
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  The error is related to this line:

      $fh = Compress::Zlib::gzdopen_ ($fh, $mode, 0)
          or &_drat;
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  I tried to change it thusly:

      $fh = Compress::Zlib::gzdopen_ (fileno($fh),$mode,0)
          or &_drat;
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  Which solves the problem in test 4 and 5, only to fail on test 6:

  ok 5
  Can't call method "gzseek" on an undefined value at blib\lib/Archive/T
  +ar.pm line 846.
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  The reason for this failure is deeper however and I cannot comprehend it, also because it appears to be time-dependent: if I step through the code with the debugger quickly the failure appears rooted at the line:

      sysseek ($_[0], 0, 0)
      or goto &_drat;
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  which 'drats', while if I debug more slowly i can get to the end of the test (which prints not ok 6) and the situation unravels later on;
• Tk gets a straight compile failure:

          cl -c  -I.. -I../pTk/mTk/xlib  -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -DNDEBUG -O
  +1 -DWIN32
  -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPER
  +L_IMPLICIT
  _SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -DNDEBUG -O1    -DVERSION=
  +\"800.024\
  "  -DXS_VERSION=\"800.024\"  "-ID:\perl58\lib\CORE"    Xlib.c
  Xlib.c
  ..\pTk/tkWinPort.h(135) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' befo
  +re '('
  ..\pTk/tkWinPort.h(135) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' befo
  +re '('
  ..\pTk/tkWinPort.h(135) : error C2091: function returns function
  ..\pTk/tkWinPort.h(135) : error C2091: function returns function
  ..\pTk/tkWinPort.h(135) : error C2146: syntax error :missing ')' befor
  +e identifier 'Perl_get_context'
  NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
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Google does not really help here so - opinions? Ideas?
TIA & Cheers,
alf

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