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Subject: Perl 5.005: Maintenance update 03 is available
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The third maintenance update for Perl 5.005 was released on March 28 1999,
and is now available from the Comprehensive Perl Network Archive (CPAN)
sites worldwide. To select from a list of sites, go to:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN
Note the absence of a trailing `/'. The actual file can be found at:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GBARR/perl5.005_03.tar.gz
This release is binary compatible with previous 5.005 releases.
For a brief overview of what is new in the 5.005 series and other
important information about reporting problems, see the release
announcement for 5.005:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GSAR/perl5.005.announce
More detailed information on changes can be found in "pod/perldelta.pod"
and "Changes" files in the distribution.
WARNING: Perl 5.005 and later are NOT BINARY COMPATIBILE with releases
prior to 5.005. You will need to recompile all extensions that require
a C compiler to build (i.e. those that contain XSUBs). See the
"INSTALL" document for detailed instructions on how to cope.
If you like the spirit in which Perl is made, help cultivate that spirit.
Reveal the sources! Set knowledge free!
--The Perl Porters
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SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN MAINTENANCE UPDATE 3
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CONFIGURATION CHANGES
Possible to Configure so that installperl skips installing
Perl into /usr/bin/perl (Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl)
NEW PLATFORM SUPPORT
DYNIX/ptx: a high-availability UNIX variant from Sequent
Computer Systems,
http://www.sequent.com/
GNU/Hurd: the GNU Project's replacement for UNIX kernel,
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
MiNT: an operating system extension that adds UNIX-like
features to ATARI TOS. Originally available only for
m68k-based microcomputers sold by ATARI in the 80's
but later available also for Mac and VME boards.
More information available from
http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~puujalka/mint.html
Stratus VOS: a fault-tolerant OS from Stratus Computer,
http://www.stratus.com/
U/WIN: a UNIX compatibility environment for Windows NT,
available from AT&T,
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
PLATFORM ENHANCEMENTS
BeOS: dynamic loading now supported (tested only on
BeOS R4 x86).
SCO: dynamic linking now supported.
Linux: now works with installations that have only installed
"runtime" versions (as opposed to "developer" versions)
of some libraries such as GDBM.
FreeBSD: 4.0 supported. ELF executable format supported.
NetBSD: those platforms that support shared libraries
have the support now also in Perl.
OpenSTEP 4.2: i386 machines are now better supported.
NextSTEP: SysV IPC (from
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/SysVIPC/)
now supported.
Win32: sysread() and syswrite() now work on sockets.
rename() works across drive boundaries on Windows NT and
is generally more compatible with its semantics on Unix.
OS/2: Numerous patches.
EBCDIC: Character class ranges ([a-z]) now work in non-ASCII
platforms.
NEW MODULES
Dumpvalue Perl5 module replacement for old perl4 dumpvar.pl
UPDATED MODULES
CPAN 1.48
CGI 2.46
Data::Dumper 2.101
Getopt::Long 2.19
DB_File 1.65
Test 1.122
Benchmark timesum() method added.
Can also run tests until N seconds.
Config $Config{sig_num_init} now contains
the signal numbers corresponding to
the signal names of $Config{sig_name_init}.
Math::Complex 0**0 is now 1, not undefined.
Math::Trig Radial/spherical trigonometry functions added.
Pod::Html Locale-aware which e.g. means that =headN
can contain non-ASCII alphabetic characters.
Pod::Text Ditto.
Carp Added cluck() - warns with stacktrace
MakeMaker PL_FILES now supports multiple targets from a single
source
AutoSplit fixed to know that pod starts with /^=\w+/
(not just /^=/)
FindBin now works correctly with Win32 UNC pathnames
NEW DOCUMENTATION
perlreftut Tutorial on references.
perlopentut Tutorial on open().
perlthrtut Tutorial on threads.
UPDATED DOCUMENTATION
All Perl FAQs.
Many typos fixed in the documentation of core modules.
perlport 1.39
ENHANCED FUNCTIONS
sort $coderef @array now works.
sort() now respects overloading.
If /dev/urandom is available as a source of random bits,
Perl will use it automatically to seed the random number generator.
Note: /dev/random is not used by default because it
may block if not enough entropy is available.
If you prefer Perl to block in such circumstances,
you can compile Perl with -DPERL_RANDOM_DEVICE=\"/dev/random\".
pack/unpack now support Z for null terminated ascii strings
that are null padded
CHANGED BEHAVIOUR
Better CR-handling on #! line and in formats.
Overload syntax is no longer experimental.
The LENGTH argument to syswrite() is now optional.
ENHANCED UTILITIES
h2ph is now much more robust.
BUG FIXES
Many multi-threading fixes. But multi-threading is still considered
experimental.
Work around a bug in Digital UNIX C compiler that caused
the 'x' operator to produce garbage under certain circumstances.
(This bug caused e.g. the tests of Digest::MD5 to fail.)
The "Used only once" warning will now only be output once for each
variable.
With $/ set to undef, slurping an empty file returns a string of
zero length (instead of undef, as it used to) for the first time the
HANDLE is read. Subsequent reads yield undef.
$a and $b are only exempt from warnings if sort with a user specified
subroutine has been seen.
SECURITY FIXES
Setuid scripts from nosuid mounted filesystems now rejected.
POSIX::strftime() buffer overflow avoided.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
lib/anydbm...FAILED at test 12
This test failure commonly encountered on glibc-2.1 systems where
db won't accept a null key.
ULTRIX /bin/sh
Configure cannot be run on ULTRIX with /bin/sh, use sh5 instead.
OS2 threads
On OS2 the use of threads, socket and fork together causes a panic.
sfio
If perl is compiled with sfio op/die_exit.t fails all tests.
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TESTED PLATFORMS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This release is known to build and pass all tests (with some noted
exceptions) on the following platforms:
PLATFORM CC OPTIONS
-------- -- -------
AIX 4.2.1.0 cc
AIX 4.2.1.0 cc -Doptimize=-O
AIX 4.2.1.0 cc_r -Dusethreads
AIX 4.2.1.0 gcc 2.8.1
AIX 4.1.5 cc -ders
AIX 4.1.5 xlc_r -Dusethreads -ders
alpha-dec_osf 4.0 cc
alpha-dec_osf 4.0 cc -Dusethreads
alpha-dec_osf 4.0 gcc 2.8.1
alpha-dec_osf 5.0 cc
alpha-dec_osf 5.0 cc -Dusethreads
AT386-gnu i386 0.2 egcs-1.1.1
AViiON-dgux r4.11mu02 gcc 2.6.3
CRAY_J90-unicos 10.0.0.2 cc
Debian Linux 2.1 gcc 2.7.2.3 -ders -Dusethreads
-Doptimize=-g
Digital UNIX 4.0D cc -ders
Digital UNIX 4.0D cc -Dusethreads -ders
Digital UNIX 4.0E cc -ders
Digital UNIX 4.0E cc -Dusethreads -ders
dynixptx i386 4.2.1 cc
FreeBSD i386 2.2.7-release gcc 2.7.2.1
FreeBSD i386 2.2.8-release gcc 2.7.2.1
FreeBSD i386 2.2.8-release gcc 2.7.2.1 -Dusethreads
FreeBSD i386 3.0-stable gcc 2.7.2.1
FreeBSD i386 3.0-stable gcc 2.7.2.1 -Dusethreads
FreeBSD i386 3.1-stable gcc 2.7.2.1
FreeBSD i386 3.1-stable gcc 2.7.2.1 -Dusethreads
FreeBSD i386 4.0-current gcc 2.7.2.1
FreeBSD i386 4.0-current gcc 2.7.2.1 -Dusethreads
HP-UX 11.0 cc -ders
HP-UX 11.0 cc -Dusethreads -ders
IP22-irix 5 cc
IP32-irix 6.5 gcc 2.8.1
IP32-irix 6.5 gcc 2.8.1 -Dusethreads
IRIX 6.5 cc -ders
IRIX 6.5 cc -Dusethreads -ders
Linux i386 2.0.36 gcc 2.7.2.3
Linux i386 2.0.36 gcc 2.7.2.3 -Dusethreads
Linux i486 1.2.13 gcc 2.7.2.2
Linux i586 2.2.0-pre2 gcc 2.7.2.3 -Dusethreads
Linux i586 2.2.5 gcc 2.7.2.3
Linux i586 2.2.5 gcc 2.7.2.3 -Dusethreads
Linux i686 2.0.32 gcc 2.8.1
Linux i686 2.0.36 egcs-1.1.1
Linux i686 2.0.36 gcc 2.7.2.3
Linux i686 2.0.36 gcc 2.7.2.3
Linux i686 2.0.36 gcc 2.7.2.3 -Dusethreads
Linux ppc 2.2.1 egcs-1.1.2
Linux ppc 2.2.1 egcs-1.1.2 -Dusethreads
machten powerpc 4.1.1 gcc 2.8.1
NetBSD i386 1.3k egcs-1.1.1
NetBSD i386 1.3.2 gcc 2.7.2.2 -ders
NetBSD mac68k 1.3k egcs-1.1.1
NetBSD macppc 1.3k egcs-1.1.1
NetBSD sparc 1.3.3 gcc 2.7.2.2+myc1
Next OpenStep Mach cc
OpenBSD 2.5 gcc 2.8.1
OpenVMS Alpha 7.1 Dec C 6.0
OpenVMS Alpha 7.1 Dec C 6.0 -Dusethreads
OS2 2.30 gcc 2.8.1
OS390 05.00 c89
OS390 06.00 c89
PA-RISC2.0 11.00 egcs-1.1.2
PA-RISC2.0 11.00 egcs-1.1.2 -Dusethreads
powerux ppc 4.3 /bin/cc
RM400-svr4 /bin/cc -W0
sco i386 3.2v5.0.4 cc
Solaris 2.3 gcc 2.4.5
Solaris 2.5.1 gcc 2.7.2
Solaris 2.5.1 gcc 2.8.1
Solaris 2.5.1 gcc 2.8.1 -Dusethreads
Solaris 2.6 gcc 2.7.2.3 -ders
Solaris 2.6 gcc 2.8.1
Solaris 2.6 gcc 2.8.1 -Dcc=gcc -ders
Solaris 2.6 gcc 2.8.1 -Dcc=gcc -Dusethreads -ders
Solaris 2.6 cc
Solaris 2.6 egcs-1.1.1
Solaris 2.6 egcs-1.1.1 -Dusethreads
Solaris 2.6 gcc 2.8.1
Solaris 2.7 egcs-1.1.2
Solaris 2.7 SC5.0
SunOS 4.1.3 gcc 2.8.1
SunOS 4.1.3_u1 gcc 2.8.1
SunOS 4.1.4 egcs-1.1.2
svr4 i386 /bin/cc
UNICOS 9.0.1ai cc -ders
Windows NT 4.0 Borland 5.02 -DUSE_THREADS
Windows NT 4.0 Borland 5.02 Debug
Windows NT 4.0 Borland 5.02 Debug -DPERL_OBJECT -DPERLCRT
Windows NT 4.0 VC 5.0 -DPERL_OBJECT -DPERLCRT
Windows NT 4.0 VC 5.0 Debug -DUSE_THREADS
-DPERL_MALLOC
Windows NT 4.0 VC 5.0 none
Windows NT 4.0 VC 6.0 -DPERLCRT Optimise
