Subject: Re: Perl 5.8 and others packages
To: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/06/2002 17:27:58
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone has experienced an upgrade from Perl 5.6.1 to Perl 5.8 ? I've
> tested some days ago but it happens to break some others tools : INN,
> for example.
> 
> I really want to upgrade to 5.8, mostly for the new Unicode support,
> and for all others adds.

I found it core dumped during the lib/locale test:

#0  0x481c7c88 in vfprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#1  0x481c34ae in snprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#2  0x481b9330 in _xpg4_setrunelocale () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#3  0x481b8f30 in __setlocale () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#4  0x481b8cdc in __setlocale () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#5  0x481b8a6f in __setlocale_mb_len_max_32 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#6  0x4820f5b6 in XS_POSIX_setlocale (cv=0x8135bc4) at POSIX.xs:1067
#7  0x80b5e96 in Perl_pp_entersub () at pp_hot.c:2773
#8  0x80a1f31 in Perl_runops_debug () at dump.c:1398
#9  0x8066ed3 in S_run_body (oldscope=1) at perl.c:1676
#10 0x8066bfc in perl_run (my_perl=0x812d030) at perl.c:1600
#11 0x8063fa3 in main (argc=5, argv=0xbfbfd7f8, env=0xbfbfd810)
    at perlmain.c:85
#12 0x805e9e0 in ___start ()

(both with no lc/lang variables set, and with LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO8859-1)
(1.6G/i386)

Cheers,

Patrick