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* create perl5113deltaLeon Brocard2009-11-201-1/+1
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* Update copyright year to 2009.Nicholas Clark2009-01-051-1/+1
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* Update copyright year to 2008.Nicholas Clark2008-10-051-1/+1
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* README ought to mention perldelta.Andy Dougherty2007-12-111-0/+3
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* Update copyright in the READMERafael Garcia-Suarez2007-11-211-1/+2
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* Doc nit, by Peter ScottRafael Garcia-Suarez2007-04-261-2/+2
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* Update the FSF's address. Plus some other whitespace and NON-WHITESPACENicholas Clark2007-02-261-2/+2
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* Use $HOME/localperl as default prefix for installing perlRafael Garcia-Suarez2006-11-071-1/+4
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* Because I like pain. An update to READMEJesse Vincent2006-11-071-74/+108
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* Happy New Year. (It's not just embed.pl).Nicholas Clark2006-01-021-1/+1
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* Happy new yearRafael Garcia-Suarez2005-01-041-2/+2
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* Re: [perl #29765] PERL-5.8.4 INSTALLAndy Dougherty2004-06-021-13/+3
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* Missing copyright in the README.Rafael Garcia-Suarez2004-04-221-1/+1
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* Fix up Larry's copyright statements to my best knowledge.Jarkko Hietaniemi2003-04-161-1/+3
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* Reverse copyright update (#18801) for files not changed in 2003.Hugo van der Sanden2003-03-021-1/+1
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* Update all copyrights to 2003, from JarkkoHugo van der Sanden2003-03-021-1/+1
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* README mention version 5.0Audrey Tang2002-02-231-1/+1
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* Copyright++. (Not all the toplevel *.h have one, it seems.)Jarkko Hietaniemi2002-01-231-1/+1
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* Re: replace http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ with http://www.cpan.org/Mark-Jason Dominus2001-11-081-1/+1
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* Bump up Larry's copyright.Jarkko Hietaniemi2001-01-011-1/+1
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* [ID 20000829.023] [PATCH 6868] perlbug@perl.com --> perlbug@perl.orgPhilip Newton2000-08-291-1/+1
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* Add a URL for FSF.Elaine -HFB- Ashton2000-08-031-2/+4
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* set SvUTF8 on vectors only if there are chars > 127; update copyrightGurusamy Sarathy2000-02-061-1/+1
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* README nits pointed out by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>Gurusamy Sarathy1999-10-241-32/+11
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* Update README and INSTALL; partly based on the messageJohn L. Allen1999-08-021-4/+17
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* various little goofsGurusamy Sarathy1999-04-021-1/+1
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* correct FSF address in various placesGurusamy Sarathy1998-09-241-2/+2
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* [win32] merge changes#752,753 from maintbranchGurusamy Sarathy1998-05-141-5/+4
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* [differences between cumulative patch application and perl5.004_01]perl-5.004_01Tim Bunce1997-06-111-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | [editor's note: The changes between this and 5.004 were processed from the m1t2 release, which was a bad idea as it was the _01 release which had the final corrected attributions. The differences between the various m*t* releases do that; I considered it most valuable just to look at the _NN releases. Many patches have been separated out and/or applied from the p5p archives nonetheless.]
* [inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_22 to perl5.003_23]perl-5.003_23Perl 5 Porters1997-01-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BUILD PROCESS Subject: Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu Subject: Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH hints/lynxos.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h plan9/config.plan9 sv.c utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com Subject: Compile with optimization when testing memory functions From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: Configure CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Subject: Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c Subject: Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlxs.pod Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit e7ea3e70155d0bea30720ba41eb6bb6742aac0d1) Subject: Nested here-docs Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800 From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Files: toke.c Msg-ID: <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org> (applied based on p5p patch as commit fd2d0953290ddd46f0820dbd6c87245486b7ab28) Subject: Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix) From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c Subject: Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>' From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c Subject: Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c CORE PORTABILITY Subject: VMS patches for _22 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/Test/Harness.pm toke.c vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms private-msgid: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Subject: Plan9 update From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@stratcom.com> Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile Subject: hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800 From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com> Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh Msg-ID: <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 23f8769697279d7912be5943de9fdf93f6aa3013) DOCUMENTATION Subject: Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod Subject: Document #line directive Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500 From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod private-msgid: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Subject: delta for perldelta Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800 From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod private-msgid: <804.854121463@jinete> Subject: Updates to perldelta Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod private-msgid: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Subject: perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi> Files: pod/perlnews.pod private-msgid: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi> Subject: Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Subject: Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes) From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_pipe.t Subject: Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501 From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm Subject: Add E* and SA_* constants Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500 From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs private-msgid: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com> OTHER CORE CHANGES Subject: Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000 From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c private-msgid: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk> Subject: Fix /\G.a/ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c Subject: Extend stack in pp_undef (!) From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: pp.c Subject: Allow for sub to be redefined while executing From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t Subject: Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c Subject: Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int() From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: pp.c Subject: Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign() Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: pp_hot.c Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 7e42bd57a6867e174bc3bc555c3268b485940a98) Subject: Remove "suidperl security patch" message From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: perl.c TESTS Subject: Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t Subject: Patch tests for systems without fork() Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100 From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> Files: t/io/pipe.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/fork.t private-msgid: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Subject: Test patches for OS/2 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_cmprt.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_dllld.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_objcall.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_sql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tiesql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tievar.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tieydb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_varset.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_vrexx.t t/README t/cmd/while.t t/comp/colon.t t/comp/multiline.t t/io/argv.t t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t t/op/cmp.t t/op/magic.t Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit bbad36071d5a6d4be3588f0f10c88247439076d8) UTILITIES Subject: Translate \200 to &#200; in pod2html From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: pod/pod2html.PL Subject: VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> Files: pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL private-msgid: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
* Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.Perl 5 Porters1996-10-071-1/+1
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* perl5.002beta3Perl 5 Porters1996-02-021-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [editor's note: no patch file was found for this release, so no fine-grained changes] I can't find the password for our ftp server, so I had to drop it into ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/incoming/perl5.002b3.tar.gz, which is a drop directory you can't ls. The current plan is that Andy is gonna whack on this a little more, and then release a gamma in a few days when he's happy with it. So don't get carried away. This is now *late* beta. In other words, have less than the appropriate amount of fun. :-) Larry
* This is my patch patch.1n for perl5.001.perl-5.001nAndy Dougherty1995-10-311-200/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To apply, change to your perl directory, run the command above, then apply with patch -p1 -N < thispatch. This is a consolidation patch. It contains many of the most commonly applied or agreed-to patches that have been circulating since patch.1m. It also changes the 'unofficial patchlevel' in perl.c. There are some problems (see items marked with '***'). I will attempt to address those in a patch.1o in a few days. This patch contains the following packages: My Jumbo Configure patch vs. 1m, with subsequent patches 1, 2, and 3. Mainly, this provides easier use of local libraries, documents the installation process in a new INSTALL file, moves important questions towards the beginning, and improves detection of signal names (mostly for Linux). xsubpp-1.922. Patches from Larry: eval "1" memory leak patch (as modified by GSAR to apply to 5.001m). NETaa14551 Infinite loop in formats, NETaa13729 scope.c patch (fixed problems on AIX and others) NETaa14138 "substr() & s///" (pp_hot.c) Patches from ftp.perl.com: ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/closure-bug.patch, version of 20 Sep 1995 Includes fix for NETaa14347 (32k limit in regex), and other fixes. ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/debugger.patch, version of 27 Aug 1995 ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/glob-undef.patch, version of 4 Sep 1995 NETaa14421 $_ doesn't undef ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/op-segfault.patch, version of 21 Aug 1995 ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/warn-ref-hash-key.patch, version of 5 Jun 1995 Tim Bunce's Jumbo DynaLoader patch for Perl5.001m, which is NETaa14636 Jumbo DynaLoader patch for Perl5.001m, and Additional patch for NETaa14636 Jumbo DynaLoader patch for Perl5.001m version of 09 Oct 1995. ***This needs some additional parentheses.*** MakeMaker-5.00. Supercedes NETaa13540 (VMS MakeMaker patches). (Updates minimod.PL as well.) ***This has a couple of minor problems. pod2man is run even if it isn't available. LD_RUN_PATH gets set to some mysterious values.*** NETaa14657 Paul Marquess Net::Ping patch. I've included Net-Ping-1.00. NETaa14661 Dean Roehrich DProf. Installed as ext/Devel/DProf. Configure should pick this up automatically. (5 Apr 1995 version.) NETaa13742 Jack Shirazi Socket in 5.001. I've also included his socket.t test in t/lib/socket.t. c2ph-1.7. Dean's perlapi patches of Oct 12, 1995, which superceded those of Oct 8, 1995. This is the one that did mv perlapi.pid perlxs.pod. NETaa14310 Tim Bunce A trivial patch for configpm (handy for shell scripts) DB_File-1.0 patch from Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk) last modified 7th October 1995 version 1.0 Added or updated the following hints files: hints/hpux.sh hints/ncr_tower.sh hints/netbsd.sh hints/ultrix.sh Patch and enjoy. Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
* This is my patch patch.1j for perl5.001.Andy Dougherty1995-06-051-10/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To apply, change to your perl directory and apply with patch -p1 -N < thispatch. After you apply this patch, I would recommend: rm config.sh sh Configure [whatever options you use] make depend make make test Here are the highlights: Linux fixes: Now correctly sets & uses stdio _ptr and _cnt tricks only when feasible (Configure, config_h.SH, config_H, doio.c, sv.c x2p/str.c) #!path-to-perl fixed to use $binexp instead of $bin. This should really be fixed to do the correct perl start-up stuff. Volunteers? (c2ph.SH, h2ph.SH, h2xs.SH, makeaperl.SH, perldoc.SH, pod/pod2*.SH, x2p/find2perl.SH, x2p/s2p.SH) hint updates: hints/apollo.sh, hints/linux.sh, hints/freebsd.sh, hints/sco_3.sh. xsubpp version 1.7. (includes CASE support) pod/perlbot updates. my lib/AutoLoader patch (to use @INC). [ON]DBM_File/Makefile.PL now have a few hint files. Other sundry small things. Patch and enjoy, Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 Here's the file-by-file breakdown of what's included: Configure Checks if File_ptr(fp) and File_cnt(fp) can be assigned to. Fix typo: s/sytem/system/ MANIFEST Include new extension hint files. README Some clarifications, thanks to John Stoeffel. Tell users how to not use dynamic loading. c2ph.SH Use $binexp instead of $bin. config_H Updated to match config_h.SH. config_h.SH Include defines for whether File_ptr(fp) and File_cnt(fp) can be assigned to. doio.c Use defines for whether File_ptr(fp) and File_cnt(fp) can be assigned to. ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm Improve error messages and a little documentation. ext/NDBM_File/hints/solaris.pl New hint file. ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL Removed -ldbm.nfs, since it's now in the sco hint file. ext/ODBM_File/hints/sco.pl ext/ODBM_File/hints/solaris.pl ext/ODBM_File/hints/svr4.pl New hint files. h2ph.SH h2xs.SH Use $binexp instead of $bin. hints/apollo.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/linux.sh hints/sco_3.sh Updated. lib/AutoLoader.pm Eliminate else clause in sub import. Handle case where @INC contains relative paths. lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Update to version 1.7. This includes CASE support. lib/I18N/Collate.pm Updated documentation. lib/ftp.pl Look for socket.ph or sys/socket.ph lib/getcwd.pl Use defined(). makeaperl.SH Use $binexp instead of $bin. perl.c fputs("\tUnofficial patchlevel 1j.\n",stdout); perldoc.SH Use $binexp instead of $bin. Turn off debugging messages. pod/perlbot.pod Updated. pod/pod2html.SH pod/pod2latex.SH pod/pod2man.SH Use $binexp instead of $bin. sv.c Use defines for whether File_ptr(fp) and File_cnt(fp) can be assigned to. toke.c Fix spelling of ambiguous. x2p/find2perl.SH x2p/s2p.SH Use $binexp instead of $bin. x2p/str.c Use defines for whether File_ptr(fp) and File_cnt(fp) can be assigned to.
* This is my patch patch.1i for perl5.001.Andy Dougherty1995-05-301-27/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To apply, change to your perl directory, run the commands above, then apply with patch -p1 -N < thispatch. After you apply this patch, I would recommend: rm config.sh sh Configure [whatever options you use] make depend make make test Here are the highlights: All pod documentation now installed, along with corresponding man pages, if possible (Configure allows you to change this). cppstdin no longer points back to the build directory. This necessitated two changes to the test suite: comp/cpp.t is now a front end that punts if cppstdin is not yet available (the old perl4 trick doesn't work for perl5). The op/misc.t test ./perl -P -e 'use POSIX;' has been dropped since I couldn't think of an elegant way to bypass it for systems that need the cppstdin wrapper. Grand autoload patch included (minus the installperl, lib/, and ext/ changes). The lib/ changes are in patch.1g, and the ext/ changes are in patch.1h. Better detection and use of stdio variants, especially on SVR4. Sarathy's consolidated patches (for ties) included. New filter stuff included. Three patches from Larry (gv.c, toke.c, pp_ctl.c) Patch and enjoy, Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 Here's the file-by-file breakdown of what's included: Changes.Conf Document changes in the Configure & build process. Configure Upgrade to metaconfig PL55. Add /opt hierarchy to paths searched for programs. Tye McQueen's updated std stdio testing. Prompting for installation info for perl module pages. Add possible SITELIB to include site-specific include directories. By default this is disabled, but it seemed a neat idea now that the standard perl library is getting so big. Check that the compiler chosen exists and actually supports the options the user specified. Correctly sort multiple shared library version numbers. Use a compile & link test for gconvert(), dlopen(), and dlerror(). Do not include build directory name in cppstdin wrapper. MANIFEST Updated. Makefile.SH Reorganized a bit to support separate install.perl and install.man targets to use the new installman script and to accomodate those who don't want to install the man pages. Organize cleanup of .SH files a little better. No longer automatically make the pod/*.man files. This is done by installman only if requested. Include additional error messages and info for regenerating the automatically maintained header files. Add 'minitest' target. README Updated. README.vms Fix perl5-porters subscription info. config_H Updated. config_h.SH Updated. configpm Embedded pod. configure GNU configure-like front end to metaconfig's Configure. Only supports a few options. doio.c Updated to use new std stdio testing. embed.h Add new symbols for filtering. global.sym see embed.h. gv.c C<sub method;> patch from lwall. hints/README.hints Updated. hints/aux.sh Updated. hints/cxux.sh Updated. hints/epix.sh New file. hints/freebsd.sh Updated. hints/irix_4.sh Updated. hints/irix_5.sh Updated. hints/irix_6.sh Updated. hints/linux.sh Updated. hints/powerunix.sh Updated. installman New file to install pod/*.pod and lib/*.p(m|od) man pages. installperl Move installation of man pages over to installman script. Install pod/*.pod files in $privlib/pod/. Preserve timestamps on .a files. makedepend.SH Now includes . and .. in PATH to explicitly find cppstdin wrapper. opcode.h opcode.pl shmwrite fix. perl.c Changed unofficial patchlevel message. Included optional SITELIB directory. perl.h #include <memory.h> cryptswitch gone/filters added. EUNICE replaced by UNLINK_ALL_VERSIONS. Only matters for VMS. perldoc.SH New file. pod/perl.pod Describe where modpods are. pp_ctl.c sort bug fix from lwall. pp_hot.c csh glob bug fix from tchrist. Sarathy's consolidated "tie" patch for NETaa13753 N 2 trey pp_sys.c Emulate flock with lockf, if possible. Use new std stdio unit. proto.h Filters stuff. prototype for unlnk() is only needed #if UNLINK_ALL_VERSIONS sv.c Sarathy's consolidated "tie" patch for NETaa13753 N 2 trey Sarathy's consolidated patch for nested ties. Use new std stdio unit. t/comp/cpp.aux New file. This only gets called if cppstdin is avaiable. t/comp/cpp.t Calls cpp.aux test only if cppstdin is available. t/op/misc.t Drop perl -P -e 'use POSIX;' test. it couldn't work on systems without the cppstdin wrapper installed, and is usually misleading when it fails anyway. toke.c filter stuff. fix for NETaa13798 from lwall. unixish.h undef UNLINK_ALL_VERSIONS since it's irrelevant for unix. util.c s/EUNICE/UNLINK_ALL_VERSIONS/ for the unlnk() function. vms/config.vms VMS updates from Charles Bailey. std stdio updates to match changes in perl sources. add UNLINK_ALL_VERSIONS constant, but leave it #undef. vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm vms/ext/VMS/stdio/stdio.xs vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c VMS updates from Charles Bailey. x2p/Makefile.SH Updated to match man page Configure questions. Slight clean-up on .SH targets. x2p/str.c Use new std stdio unit.
* perl5.001 patch.1cAndy Dougherty1995-04-061-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Configure Updated to dist PL53. Fix overlapping memcpy test. Add check for ld. Use $cc instead, if on an ELF system. With -d, don't reuse config.sh unless $myuname matches. Warn more explicitly about changing compilers before reloading old config.sh. Detect Linux ELF format in nm scan. Better detection of d_castneg. (ISC 4.1 was passing the test, but couldn't cast in an argument list.) Suggest -fpic for dynamic loading if you're using GNU CC under any name. No longer test for byacc, fmod, or drem, since they are not used. Makefile.SH Use $ld, not ld (only matters for SVR4) Silence some byacc-related harmless error messages. README Suggest using -Dcc=gcc (or whatever). Warn about reusing old config.sh. (The warning was already there in 5.001; I've just expanded it a little.) Warn against using GNU as and GNU ld on SunOS & Solaris. config.H config_h.SH Updated to match Configure. doio.c Add socket includes. ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs Fix typo: s/SETFL/F_SETFL/; handy.h Check _G_HAVE_BOOL, not just if it's defined. hints/dynix.sh hints/hpux_9.sh hints/linux.sh hints/netbsd.sh hints/titanos.sh Updated. ELF on linux should probably work. installperl Install pod2html, pod2latex, and pod2man. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Updated to 4.091. (4.09 + a small writedoc() patch.) myconfig Now includes 'ld' command. perl.c Revised an #elif clause since Pyramid's cpp doesn't understand #elif. perl.h Fix U_L, I_V, and I_32 cast macros to ensure that the cast_ulong(), cast_iv(), and cast_i32() functions (if used) are passed a double. In particular, the FIXSTATUS macros were handing int's to U_L(). Remove unnecessary HAS_FMOD testing (See util.c). proto.h Remove my_fmod() prototype. (See util.c) sv.h Fix GV/CV typo. util.c Simplified cast_i32() and cast_iv() to mimic what *actually* happens on a SPARC running SunOS 4.1.3. (Previously, they did some complicated fmod() calculation. I've since discovered that's not what happens on the SPARC.) With this change, fmod() is no longer necessary. Hence my_fmod is removed. This also means the HAS_FMOD and HAS_DREM tests are no longer needed in Configure, so they are gone too. vms/config.vms Remove unnecessary HAS_FMOD and HAS_DREM defines. x2p/Makefile.SH Silence byacc-related things.
* Perl 5.001perl-5.001Larry Wall1995-03-121-2/+1
| | | | [See the Changes file for a list of changes]
* perl5.000 patch.0m: [various fixes, hint file updates and documentation]Andy Dougherty1995-02-271-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is my patch patch.0m for perl5.000. This patch fixes all remaining problems that I am aware of, and for which I have a solution. It also updates some hint files and documentation. Here's what's new: Configure Protect against spaces in uname -m output (unicos). Look in <stdlib.h> for malloctype and freetype. Check if user has void free() or int free(). Look in linux/signal.h for signal names. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Two new hint files: cxux.sh and PowerUNIX.sh. Sorted. README Indicate what gets installed and where it usually goes. Thanks to Hallvard B. Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for suggesting this. U/Myinit.U Update extliblist comment. U/dist3_051.pat This file contains patches to dist 3 (PL 51) that I used to generate Configure for perl. U/mallocsrc.U Look in <stdlib.h> for malloctype and freetype. Check if user has void free() or int free(). config_h.SH config.H Add Free_t to handle void free() vs. int free(). ext/DynaLoader/README Updated comment. ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm creat() has 2 arguments, not 3 (thanks, Paul). ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Fix return type of lseek. ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Add I_STDLIB guard on #include <stdlib.h> ext/util/extliblist Add note indicating this is obsolete. Don't remove it because people might be using it for their own private extensions. hints/PowerUNIX.sh hints/cxux.sh New files. Written by Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com hints/linux.sh Simplified. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Typo fixed, only affected aix? malloc.c Allow for possible int free(). perl.h pp_sys.c util.c If the user is not using vfork, move the #define vfork fork util after various #include files. Since vfork() and fork() might have different prototypes, the #define could cause a conflict in system header files. (Reported for 386bsd.) Makefile.SH make realclean will remove h2xs and makeaperl (but leave behind the .SH versions, of course).
* perl5.000 patch.0j: fix minor portability and build problems remaining even ↵Andy Dougherty1995-02-071-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | after patches 0a through 0i Specifically, here's what's included: Configure Regenerated with metaconfig patchlevel 50. This changed a variety of things, mostly related to selecting and changing the installation prefix. Handle csh, sed, and byacc no matter what the setting of d_portable. (This was causing glob problems in patch.0i). Set d_portable to default to 'y'. It doesn't matter anyway, but gives people a warm fuzzy feeling. Remove useless d_group and d_passwd tests. Add check for <sys/stat.h>. Improve & generalize AIX version detection. Consider /opt/man/man1 as a possible place to install man pages. Be a little more robust about OS version changes when deciding if the output of uname -a has really changed. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Added hints/mpeix.sh. README Tell users the Configure defaults are probably right. Makefile.SH Better detection of whether user has byacc. Use $(MAKE) instead of make. U/Loc_sed.U Works again with d_portable='define'. U/Myinit.U Set d_portable=define as default. U/d_byacc.U Detect whether user has byacc even if d_portable=define. U/d_csh.U Works again with d_portable='define'. U/d_group.U Empty file to avoid useless metaconfig test. U/d_passwd.U Empty file to avoid useless metaconfig test. U/dist.patch This file contains two minor updates to dist3 PL50 that were used to generage Configure. U/i_sysstat.U New test. See if sys/stat.h is available. config.H Updated. config_h.SH Updated to metaconfig patchlevel 50. ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL Add -lucb for SVR4 systems. handy.h Protect agains g++-2.6.3, which predefines bool. g++ can be used to compile an extension, but not perl itself. Still, the extension will #include "perl.h", which eventually gets "handy.h", which #define's bool. If this happens to you, add -DHAS_BOOL to your ccflags in your extension, or else ensure that _G_config.h is #include'd before perl.h. (_G_config.h will define _G_HAVE_BOOL, if indeed your version of g++ has bool.) hints/aix.sh Updated. Handles AIX 3.2.x and 4.1. Comments included! hints/hpux_9.sh Updated. hints/irix_4.sh Updated. Includes comments for IRIX 4.0.4 hints/linux.sh Updated. Beginnings of ELF support added, but completely untested. hints/mpeix.sh New hint file. hints/solaris_2.sh Useless ccflags="$ccflags" line removed. hints/svr4.sh Updated. installperl Doesn't use Config anymore (it already reads config.sh directly. That's probably backwards, but, oh well. Install perl.exp for AIX. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Upgraded from 4.01 to 4.03. makedepend.SH Use $MAKE instead of plain make. Index: op.c Remove overlapping strcpy(). perl.h Add test for <sys/stat.h>. Delete unused VOIDSIG stuff. Delete unused typedef struct lstring Lstring; perl_exp.SH Add safexxxx calls. pp_sys.c Delete wayward break in HAS_ALARM section. proto.h Change true and false (!) in function prototypes to please g++-2.6.3, which has true and false built in. (See notes for handy.h.) Index: unixish.h Long-overdue housekeeping. HAS_GROUP and HAS_PASSWD are always defined. util.c Yet another (char*) cast for bcmp. vms/config.vms Changed comments to match unixish.h. writemain.SH Now correctly handles nested static extensions. Recent MakeMakers have moved where they get built. x2p/a2p.h More definitions that will doubtless cause trouble somewhere else. x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c Remove unprotected char *strchr();
* perl5.000 patch.0g: [various portability fixes, and use latest metaconfig ↵Andy Dougherty1995-01-181-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for Configure] This patch incorporates various portability fixes and uses the latest metaconfig to generate Configure (and config_h.SH). It would take a long time to summarize all that I've changed. I haven't included many code changes because I'm trying *not* to duplicate bug fixes Larry may already have applied. Here's an older description I prepared that's still mostly accurate: I've also included a few portability fixes in the main source, but these are certainly not a complete set of everything that's been reported. Don't be put off by the size of the patch. Mostly, it's just rearrangement of the parts in Configure and some cosmetic changes. Since gcc often supports long long, I had started to add quad support to Configure. Since SunOS 4.1.3 defines a conflicting "quad" structure, I changed the name from 'quad' to Quad_t, consistent with other Configure "types." I also changed "QUAD" to "HAS_QUAD". However, it turns out it's pretty hard to actually *use* Quad_t. Neither system I have access to can sprintf() a "long long", nor can they carry one around in an IV, unless I make IV "long long", which I didn't want to force generally. Thus I wonder whether any but a precious few could actually use Quad_t, and dropped the tests from Configure. I left in the s/quad/Quad_t/ and s/QUAD/HAS_QUAD/ stuff in case someone else wants to pick it up, and also because I was too lazy to take it back out :-). Some highlights: Configure Several new options. Use Configure -h to learn more. Also, read the directions Configure prints. :-) Spaces now allowed in -D command line options. New -O option that overrides config.sh. You can start interactively and then change that to accepting all the defaults by specifying &-d at any Configure prompt. This is useful if you have to re-run Configure to only change a few settings. Signal type set correctly for the cast{i32,neg} tests. archname detection improved a bit guard against ksh users who have set -u Oldconfig.U cleaned up and regularized a bit more. Guard against hint files using (and over-writing) $tmp. Command line options now are processed after metaconfig INIT lines. Thus things like Configure -Uuseposix should work now. Various miscellaneous clean-ups. better use/detection of tr. i_db.U now checks for hash and prefix type (I think!) I can't test it here. i_?db*.U now all check for an associated function before deciding to include or not the header. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Sorted & updated. Makefile.SH Some shells/makes bombed out on test -d lib/auto || mkdir lib/auto Use makedir instead. README Some additional notes that people won't read :-). cflags.SH Now calls $startsh. Weird things were happening on Intergraph, and this might be related. config.H Updated. config_h.SH Regenerated. deb.c Varargs dependencies on STANDARD_C replaced by I_STDARG. doop.c quad stuff. ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs Use the new DB_Hash_t and DB_Prefix_t symbols. ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Fix #defines to be more robust. mg.c Replace VOIDSIG by metaconfig's Signal_t. opcode.h opcode.pl semop only takes 2 arguments, not 3. perl.c Better guard on getenv() prototype. A hint file can use this, if necessary. Me, I think some compilers are just too picky. perl.h The (very) beginnings of some Quad support. See above. Remove the very troublesome sprintf() prototype. Since we don't _use_ the return value anyway (since it's not portable) this should be o.k. The problem was that some systems CAN_PROTOTYPE but include char *sprintf(); in <stdio.h>. That's incompatible with the version we used to have in perl.h. Most people have a prototype for sprintf() in <stdio.h>. Those that don't probably can get by without it anyway. Protect the timesbuf by the specific HAS_TIMES test. Some older gcc-2.something/Solaris 2.something installations apparently don't have times. pp.c More quad stuff. pp_ctl.c s/STANDARD_C/I_STDARG/ for varargs stuff. pp_sys.c use Signal_t. proto.h Update to match new metaconfig names. util.c s/STANDARD_C/I_STDARG/ for varargs stuff. comment out <unistd.h>. A pause prototype was causing problems on some systems. vms/config.vms Changed to use Signal_t.
* perl 5.000perl-5.000Larry Wall1994-10-171-43/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | [editor's note: this commit combines approximate 4 months of furious releases of Andy Dougherty and Larry Wall - see pod/perlhist.pod for details. Andy notes that; Alas neither my "Irwin AccuTrack" nor my DC 600A quarter-inch cartridge backup tapes from that era seem to be readable anymore. I guess 13 years exceeds the shelf life for that backup technology :-(. ]
* perl 5.0 alpha 8Andy Dougherty1994-04-041-8/+1
| | | | | [the last one taken from the September '94 InfoMagic CD; a similar style of cleanup as the previous commits was performed]
* perl 5.0 alpha 5Larry Wall1993-12-101-8/+9
| | | | | | [editor's note: the sparc executables have not been included, and emacs backup files and other cruft such as patch backup files have been removed. This was reconstructed from a tarball found on the September 1994 InfoMagic CD]
* perl 5.0 alpha 2perl-5a2Larry Wall1993-10-071-9/+15
| | | | [editor's note: from history.perl.org. The sparc executables originally included in the distribution are not in this commit.]
* perl 4.0 patch 11: (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-11-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Subject: added eval {} Subject: eval 'stuff' now optimized to eval {stuff} This set of patches doesn't have many enhancements but this is one of them. The eval operator has two distinct semantic functions. First, it runs the parser on some random string and executes it. Second, it traps exceptions and returns them in $@. There are times when you'd like to get the second function without the first. In order to do that, you can now eval a block of code, which is parsed like ordinary code at compile time, but which traps any run-time errors and returns them in the $@ variable. For instance, to trap divide by zero errors: eval { $answer = $foo / $bar; }; warn $@ if $@; Since single-quoted strings don't ever change, they are optimized to the eval {} form the first time they are encountered at run-time. This doesn't happen too often, though some of you have written things like eval '&try_this;'. However, the righthand side of s///e is evaluated as a single-quoted string, so this construct should run somewhat faster now. Subject: added sort {} LIST Another enhancement that some of you have been hankering for. You can now inline the sort subroutine as a block where the subroutine name used to go: @articles = sort {$a <=> $b;} readdir(DIR); Subject: added some support for 64-bit integers For Convexen and Crayen, which have 64-bit integers, there's now pack, unpack and sprintf support for 64-bit integers. Subject: sprintf() now supports any length of s field You can now use formats like %2048s and %-8192.8192s. Perl will totally bypass your system's sprintf() function on these. No, you still probably can't say %2048d. No, I'm not going to change that any time soon. Subject: substr() and vec() weren't allowed in an lvalue list Subject: extra comma at end of list is now allowed in more places (Hi, Felix!) Subject: underscore is now allowed within literal octal and hex numbers Various syntactic relaxations. You can now get away with (substr($foo,0,3), substr($bar,0,3)) = ('abc', 'def'); (1,2,3,)[$x]; $addr = 0x1a20_ff0b; Subject: safe malloc code now integrated into Perl's malloc when possible To save a bunch of subroutine calls. If you use your system's malloc it still has to use wrappers. Subject: added support for dbz By saying "make dbzperl" you can make a copy of Perl that can access C news's dbz files. You still have to follow the dbz rules, though, if you're going to try to write a dbz file. Subject: there are now subroutines for calling back from C into Perl Subject: usub/curses.mus now supports SysV curses More C linkage support. I still haven't got Perl embeddable, but we're getting there. That's too big an enhancement for this update, in which I've been trying to stick to bug fixes, with some success. Subject: prepared for ctype implementations that don't define isascii() A larger percentage of this update consists of code to do consistent ctype processing whether or not <ctype.h> is 8-bit clean. Subject: /$foo/o optimizer could access deallocated data Subject: certain optimizations of //g in array context returned too many values Subject: regexp with no parens in array context returned wacky $`, $& and $' Subject: $' not set right on some //g Subject: grep of a split lost its values Subject: # fields could write outside allocated memory Subject: length($x) was sometimes wrong for numeric $x Recently added or modified stuff that you kind of expect to be a bit flaky still. Well, I do... Subject: passing non-existend array elements to subrouting caused core dump Subject: "foo" x -1 dumped core Subject: truncate on a closed filehandle could dump Subject: a last statement outside any block caused occasional core dumps Subject: missing arguments caused core dump in -D8 code Subject: cacheout.pl could dump core from invalid comparison operator Subject: *foo = undef coredumped Subject: warn '-' x 10000 dumped core Subject: index("little", "longer string") could visit faraway places A bunch of natty little bugs that you wouldn't generally run into unless you're trying to be coy. Subject: hex() didn't understand leading 0x It wasn't documented that it should work, but oct() understands 0x, so why not hex()? I dunno... Subject: "foo\0" eq "foo" was sometimes optimized to true Subject: eval confused by string containing null Yet more holdovers from the time before Perl was 8-bit clean. Subject: foreach on null list could spring memory leak Subject: local(*FILEHANDLE) had a memory leak Kind of slow leaks, as leaks go. Still... Subject: minimum match length calculation in regexp is now cumulative More substitutions can be done in place now because Perl knows that patterns like in s/foo\s+bar/1234567/ have to match a certain number of characters total. It used to be on that particular pattern that it only knew that it had to match at least 3 characters. Now it know it has to match at least 7. Subject: multiple reallocations now avoided in 1 .. 100000 You still don't want to say 1 .. 1000000, but at least it will refrain from allocating intermediate sized blocks while it's constructing the value, and won't do the extra copies implied by realloc. Subject: indirect subroutine calls through magic vars (e.g. &$1) didn't work Subject: defined(&$foo) and undef(&$foo) didn't work Subject: certain perl errors should set EBADF so that $! looks better Subject: stats of _ forgot whether prior stat was actually lstat Subject: -T returned true on NFS directory Subject: sysread() in socket was substituting recv() Subject: formats didn't fill their fields as well as they could Subject: ^ fields chopped hyphens on line break Subject: -P didn't allow use of #elif or #undef Subject: $0 was being truncated at times Subject: forked exec on non-existent program now issues a warning Various things you'd expect to work the way you expect, but didn't when you did, or I did, or something... Subject: perl mistook some streams for sockets because they return mode 0 too Subject: reopening STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR failed on some machines Problems opening files portably. So what's new? Subject: cppstdin now installed outside of source directory Subject: installperl now overrides installer's umask People who used cppstdin for the cpp filter or who had their umask set to 700 will now be happier. (And Configure will now prefer /lib/cpp over cppstdin like it used to. If this gives your machine heartburn because /lib/cpp doesn't set the symbols it should, write a hints file to poke them into ccflags.) Subject: initial .* in pattern had dependency on value of $* An initial .* was optimized to have a ^ on the front to avoid retrying when we know it won't match. Unfortunately this implicit ^ was paying attention to $*, which it shouldn't have been. Subject: certain patterns made use of garbage pointers from uncleared memory Many of you saw this as a failure in t/op/pat.t. Subject: perl now issues warning if $SIG{'ALARM'} is referenced Since the book mentions "SIGALARM", I thought we needed this. Subject: solitary subroutine references no longer trigger typo warnings You can now use -w (more) profitably on programs that require other files. I figured if you mistype a subroutine name you'll get a fatal error anyway, unlike a variable, which just defaults to being undefined. Subject: $foo .= <BAR> could overrun malloced memory Good old-fashioned bug. Subject: \$ didn't always make it through double-quoter to regexp routines Subject: \x and \c were subject to double interpretation in regexps Subject: nested list operators could miscount parens Subject: sort eval "whatever" didn't work Syntactic misfeatures of various sorts. Subject: find2perl produced incorrect code for -group Subject: find2perl could be confused by names containing whitespace Subject: in a2p, split on whitespace produced extra null field Translator stuff. Subject: new complete.pl from Wayne Thompson Subject: assert.pl and exceptions.pl from Tom Christiansen Subject: added Tom's c2ph stuff Subject: getcwd.pl from Brandon S. Allbery Subject: fastcwd.pl from John Basik Subject: chat2.pl from Randal L. Schwartz New contributed stuff. Thanks! (Not that a lot of the other stuff isn't contributed too...) Subject: debugger got confused over nested subroutine definitions Subject: once-thru blocks didn't display right in the debugger Subject: perldb.pl modified to run within emacs in perldb-mode Debugger stuff. The first two were caused by not saving line numbers at exactly the right moment. Subject: documented meaning of scalar(%foo) I also updated the Errata section of the man page. Subject: various portability fixes Subject: random cleanup Subject: saberized perl Type casts, saber warning message suppression, hints files and various metaconfig fiddlehoods.
* perl 4.0 patch 9: patch #4, continuedLarry Wall1991-06-061-16/+30
| | | | See patch #4.
* perl 4.0 patch 1: (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-04-111-5/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Subject: Configure now handles defaults much better Subject: Configure now knows if config.sh was built on this machine Subject: Configure now checks file existence more efficiently Subject: Configure now handles stupid SCO csh Configure has been heavily revised. Many of the tests that used to simply force a decision now check that decision against the previous value of the variable, and offer to let you change it. The default now is to keep the old value, so that you don't lose information from your previous run. Because of this, it's now more important to know whether, in fact, config.sh was produced on this machine and on this version of the operating system. config.sh now contains a lastuname variable which contains the output of uname -a. If this matches the current output of uname -a, Configure defaults to including the old config.sh. Otherwise not. If there is no valid config.sh, then Configure looks defaults for the current architecture in the hints/ subdirectory instead. The guesswork I've done in this section of code is phenomenal, so you'll have to instruct me where I've misparsed the output of uname (a problem in portability all of its own). Subject: Configure now differentiates getgroups() type from getgid() type Subject: Configure now figures out malloc ptr type Subject: Configure now does better on sprintf() Configure was assuming that the array of values returned from getgroups was the same type as the gids returned by other system calls. Unfortunately, reality set in. Likewise for malloc() and sprintf(), which there is only one portable way to find out the return value of: try it one way or the other, and see if it blows up. Subject: C flags are now settable on a per-file basis Subject: reduced maximum branch distance in eval.c Certain compilers and/or optimizers get bozoed out by large compilation units, or by large structures within those units. Previously, you either had to change the compiler flags for all the files, or do hairy editing in Makefile.SH and remake the Makefile, necessitating a make depend. Now there is a script called cflags.SH whose duty it is to return the proper CFLAGS for any given C file. You can change the flags in just one spot now and they will be immediately reflected in the next make (or even in the current make, if one is running). Eventually I expect that any of the hints files could modify cflags.SH, but I haven't done that yet. The particular problem of long jump offsets in eval.c has been at least partially alleviated by locating some of the labels in the middle of the function instead of at the end. This still doesn't help the poor Vax when you compile with -g, since it puts a jump to the end of the function to allocate the stack frame and then jumps back to the beginning of the function to execute it. For now Vaxen will have to stick with -O or hand assemble eval.c and teval.c with a -J switch. Subject: fixed "Bad free" error Subject: fixed debugger coredump on subroutines Subject: regexec only allocated space for 9 subexpresssions These are problems that were reported on the net and had unofficial patches. Now they have official patches. Be sure to patch a copy of your files without the unofficial patches, or the patch program will get confused. Subject: you may now use "die" and "caller" in a signal handler Someone pointed out that using die to raise an exception out of a signal handler trashed the expression value stack if the exception was caught by eval. While fixing that, I also fixed the longstanding problem that signal handlers didn't have a normal call frame, which prevented the caller function from working. Subject: fixed undefined environ problem Subject: hopefully straightened out some of the Xenix mess Subject: random cleanup in cpp namespace Just keeping up with the current progress in non-standardization. Subject: fixed failed fork to return undef as documented The open function returns undef on failed implicit forks. The Book assumed that the same was true of an explicit fork. I've made the function behave like the Book says. It's a pity there's no way to have an undefined value that returns -1 in a numeric context but false in a boolean context... Subject: generalized the yaccpar fixer some Thanks to Andy Dougherty, perly.fixer now knows how to fix SVR3 2.2's yaccpar code to do dynamic parse stack allocation. He also made it easy for other people to insert their code there. Hooray! Subject: find2perl sometimes needs to stat on the 2nd leg of a -o Subject: find2perl didn't correctly handle switches with an argument of 0 In attempting to delay the lstat to the last moment, in case a filename could be rejected on the basis of its name, find2perl neglected to take into account the fact that control might pass to the 2nd half of a -o without executing all of the 1st half, in particular without executing the lstat. find2perl was wisely removing leading zeroes from numbers that would mistakenly be interpreted as octal numbers by Perl. Unfortunately, this caused it to delete the number 0 entirely. Subject: fixed dumpvar not to dump internal debugging info Subject: substr($ENV{"PATH"},0,0) = "/foo:" didn't modify environment Subject: $foo .= <BAR> could cause core dump for certain lengths of $foo Subject: perl -de "print" wouldn't stop at the first statement Random glitchy little things. Subject: I'm at NetLabs now I'm now working for NetLabs, Inc., and I hadn't changed my address everywhere.
* perl 4.0.00: (no release announcement available)perl-4.0.00Larry Wall1991-03-211-8/+16
| | | | So far, 4.0 is still a beta test version. For the last production version, look in pub/perl.3.0/kits@44.
* perl 3.0 patch #42 (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-01-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most of these patches are pretty self-explanatory. Much of this is random cleanup in preparation for version 4.0, so I won't talk about it here. A couple of things should be noted, however. First, there's a new -0 option that allows you to specify (in octal) the initial value of $/, the record separator. It's primarily intended for use with versions of find that support -print0 to delimit filenames with nulls, but it's more general than that: null ^A default CR paragraph mode file slurp mode This feature is so new that it didn't even make it into the book. The other major item is that different patchlevels of perl can now coexist in your bin directory. The names "perl" and "taintperl" are just links to "perl3.044" and "tperl3.044". This has several benefits. The perl3.044 invokes the corresponding tperl3.044 rather than taintperl, so it always runs the correct version. Second, you can "freeze" a script by putting a #! line referring to a version that it is known to work with. Third, you can put a new version out there to try out before making it the default perl. Lastly, it sells more disk drives. :-) Barring catastrophe, this will likely be the last patch before version 4.0 comes out.
* perl 3.0 patch #41 (combined patch)Larry Wall1990-11-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's the requisite dinky patch to fix the problems of the preceding large set of patches. In this case, a couple of malloc/free problems--one of which involved overrunning the end of an allocated string, and the other of which involved freeing with invalid pointers. (There was also a bug in there involving variable magicalness propagating incorrectly, which resulting in a dbm anomoly.) I updated README to mention that dnix needs to avoid -O. I added the hp malloc union overhead strut that Jan Dr{rv posted. (Eventually this should be determined by Configure, but laziness has its advantages.)
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