perlcygwin
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Name
perlcygwin - Perl for Cygwin
Synopsis
This document will help you configure, make, test and
install Perl on Cygwin. This document also describes
features of Cygwin that will affect how Perl behaves at
runtime.
NOTE: There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin
and a version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin
install. If you do not need to customize the configuration,
consider using one of those packages.
Description
Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLCYGWIN(1)
NAME
README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
SYNOPSIS
This document will help you configure, make, test and
install Perl on Cygwin. This document also describes
features of Cygwin that will affect how Perl behaves at
runtime.
NOTE: There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin
and a version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin
install. If you do not need to customize the configuration,
consider using one of those packages.
PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development
tools for Win32 platforms. They run thanks to the Cygwin
library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment
these programs expect. More information about this project
can be found at:
F<http://www.cygwin.com/>
A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.
At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.5.24
was current.
Cygwin Configuration
While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your
Cygwin setup so that Perl builds cleanly. These changes are
not required for normal Perl usage.
NOTE: The binaries that are built will run on all Win32
versions. They do not depend on your host system
(Win9x/WinME, WinNT/Win2K) or your Cygwin configuration
(ntea, ntsec, binary/text mounts). The only dependencies
come from hard-coded pathnames like "/usr/local". However,
your host system and Cygwin configuration will affect Perl's
runtime behavior (see "TEST").
o "PATH"
Set the "PATH" environment variable so that Configure
finds the Cygwin versions of programs. Any Windows
directories should be removed or moved to the end of
your "PATH".
o nroff
If you do not have nroff (which is part of the groff
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package), Configure will not prompt you to install man
pages.
o Permissions
On WinNT with either the ntea or ntsec "CYGWIN"
settings, directory and file permissions may not be set
correctly. Since the build process creates directories
and files, to be safe you may want to run a "chmod -R +w
*" on the entire Perl source tree.
Also, it is a well known WinNT "feature" that files
created by a login that is a member of the
Administrators group will be owned by the Administrators
group. Depending on your umask, you may find that you
can not write to files that you just created (because
you are no longer the owner). When using the ntsec
"CYGWIN" setting, this is not an issue because it
"corrects" the ownership to what you would expect on a
UNIX system.
CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
The default options gathered by Configure with the
assistance of hints/cygwin.sh will build a Perl that
supports dynamic loading (which requires a shared
libperl.dll).
This will run Configure and keep a record:
./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure
If you are willing to accept all the defaults run Configure
with -de. However, several useful customizations are
available.
Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
It is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the
build process. The resulting binaries will be significantly
smaller. If you want the binaries to be stripped, you can
either add a -s option when Configure prompts you,
Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s
Any special flags to pass to g++ to create a dynamically loaded library?
[none] -s
Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s
or you can edit hints/cygwin.sh and uncomment the relevant
variables near the end of the file.
Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
Several Perl functions and modules depend on the existence
of some optional libraries. Configure will find them if
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they are installed in one of the directories listed as being
used for library searches. Pre-built packages for most of
these are available from the Cygwin installer.
o "-lcrypt"
The crypt package distributed with Cygwin is a Linux
compatible 56-bit DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.
Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been
ported to Cygwin.
The DES based Ultra Fast Crypt port was done by Alexey
Truhan:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/cw32crypt-dist-0.tgz
NOTE: There are various export restrictions on DES
implementations, see the glibc README for more details.
The MD5 port was done by Andy Piper:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/libcrypt.tgz
o "-lgdbm_compat" ("use GDBM_File")
GDBM is available for Cygwin.
NOTE: The GDBM library only works on NTFS partitions.
o "-ldb" ("use DB_File")
BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin.
NOTE: The BerkeleyDB library only completely works on
NTFS partitions and db-4.3 is flawed.
o "cygserver" ("use IPC::SysV")
A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin.
NOTE: This has not been extensively tested. In
particular, "d_semctl_semun" is undefined because it
fails a Configure test and on Win9x the shm*() functions
seem to hang. It also creates a compile time dependency
because perl.h includes <sys/ipc.h> and <sys/sem.h>
(which will be required in the future when compiling
CPAN modules). CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED!
o "-lutil"
Included with the standard Cygwin netrelease is the
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inetutils package which includes libutil.a.
Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
The INSTALL document describes several Configure-time
options. Some of these will work with Cygwin, others are
not yet possible. Also, some of these are experimental.
You can either select an option when Configure prompts you
or you can define (undefine) symbols on the command line.
o "-Uusedl"
Undefining this symbol forces Perl to be compiled
statically.
o "-Uusemymalloc"
By default Perl uses the "malloc()" included with the
Perl source. If you want to force Perl to build with
the system "malloc()" undefine this symbol.
o "-Uuseperlio"
Undefining this symbol disables the PerlIO abstraction.
PerlIO is now the default; it is not recommended to
disable PerlIO.
o "-Dusemultiplicity"
Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl in a C
program and using more than one interpreter instance.
This works with the Cygwin port.
o "-Duse64bitint"
By default Perl uses 32 bit integers. If you want to
use larger 64 bit integers, define this symbol.
o "-Duselongdouble"
gcc supports long doubles (12 bytes). However, several
additional long double math functions are necessary to
use them within Perl ({atan2, cos, exp, floor, fmod,
frexp, isnan, log, modf, pow, sin, sqrt}l, strtold).
These are not yet available with Cygwin.
o "-Dusethreads"
POSIX threads are implemented in Cygwin, define this
symbol if you want a threaded perl.
o "-Duselargefiles"
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Cygwin uses 64-bit integers for internal size and
position calculations, this will be correctly detected
and defined by Configure.
o "-Dmksymlinks"
Use this to build perl outside of the source tree. This
works with Cygwin. Details can be found in the INSTALL
document. This is the recommended way to build perl
from sources.
Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
You may see some messages during Configure that seem
suspicious.
o Win9x and "d_eofnblk"
Win9x does not correctly report "EOF" with a non-
blocking read on a closed pipe. You will see the
following messages:
But it also returns -1 to signal EOF, so be careful!
WARNING: you can't distinguish between EOF and no data!
*** WHOA THERE!!! ***
The recommended value for $d_eofnblk on this machine was "define"!
Keep the recommended value? [y]
At least for consistency with WinNT, you should keep the
recommended value.
o Compiler/Preprocessor defines
The following error occurs because of the Cygwin
"#define" of "_LONG_DOUBLE":
Guessing which symbols your C compiler and preprocessor define...
try.c:<line#>: missing binary operator
This failure does not seem to cause any problems. With
older gcc versions, "parse error" is reported instead of
"missing binary operator".
MAKE ON CYGWIN
Simply run make and wait:
make 2>&1 | tee log.make
TEST ON CYGWIN
There are two steps to running the test suite:
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make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test
cd t; ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness
The same tests are run both times, but more information is
provided when running as "./perl harness".
Test results vary depending on your host system and your
Cygwin configuration. If a test can pass in some Cygwin
setup, it is always attempted and explainable test failures
are documented. It is possible for Perl to pass all the
tests, but it is more likely that some tests will fail for
one of the reasons listed below.
File Permissions on Cygwin
UNIX file permissions are based on sets of mode bits for
{read,write,execute} for each {user,group,other}. By
default Cygwin only tracks the Win32 read-only attribute
represented as the UNIX file user write bit (files are
always readable, files are executable if they have a
.{com,bat,exe} extension or begin with "#!", directories are
always readable and executable). On WinNT with the ntea
"CYGWIN" setting, the additional mode bits are stored as
extended file attributes. On WinNT with the default ntsec
"CYGWIN" setting, permissions use the standard WinNT
security descriptors and access control lists. Without one
of these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated
yet):
Failed Test List of failed
------------------------------------
io/fs.t 5, 7, 9-10
lib/anydbm.t 2
lib/db-btree.t 20
lib/db-hash.t 16
lib/db-recno.t 18
lib/gdbm.t 2
lib/ndbm.t 2
lib/odbm.t 2
lib/sdbm.t 2
op/stat.t 9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)
NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
Do not use NDBM_File or ODBM_File on FAT filesystem. They
can be built on a FAT filesystem, but many tests will fail:
../ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t 13 3328 71 59 83.10% 1-2 4 16-71
../ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ??
../lib/AnyDBM_File.t 2 512 12 2 16.67% 1 4
../lib/Memoize/t/errors.t 0 139 11 5 45.45% 7-11
../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t 13 3328 4 4 100.00% 1-4
run/fresh_perl.t 97 1 1.03% 91
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If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on
FAT), run Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to
prevent NDBM_File and ODBM_File being built.
With NTFS (and no CYGWIN=nontsec), there should be no
problems even if perl was built on FAT.
"fork()" failures in io_* tests
A "fork()" failure may result in the following tests
failing:
ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_multihomed.t
ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t
ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t
See comment on fork in Miscellaneous below.
Specific features of the Cygwin port
Script Portability on Cygwin
Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like
semantics on top of Win32 systems. However, in addition to
the items noted above, there are some differences that you
should know about. This is a very brief guide to
portability, more information can be found in the Cygwin
documentation.
o Pathnames
Cygwin pathnames can be separated by forward (/) or
backward (\\) slashes. They may also begin with drive
letters (C:) or Universal Naming Codes (//UNC). DOS
device names (aux, con, prn, com*, lpt?, nul) are
invalid as base filenames. However, they can be used in
extensions (e.g., hello.aux). Names may contain all
printable characters except these:
: * ? " < > |
File names are case insensitive, but case preserving. A
pathname that contains a backslash or drive letter is a
Win32 pathname (and not subject to the translations
applied to POSIX style pathnames).
For conversion we have "Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()" and
"Cygwin::posix_to_win_path()".
Pathnames may not contain Unicode characters. "Cygwin"
still uses the ANSI API calls and no Unicode calls
because of newlib deficiencies. There's an unofficial
unicode patch for cygwin at
http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
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o Text/Binary
When a file is opened it is in either text or binary
mode. In text mode a file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z
translations. With Cygwin, the default mode for an
"open()" is determined by the mode of the mount that
underlies the file. See "Cygwin::is_binmount()". Perl
provides a "binmode()" function to set binary mode on
files that otherwise would be treated as text.
"sysopen()" with the "O_TEXT" flag sets text mode on
files that otherwise would be treated as binary:
sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT)
"lseek()", "tell()" and "sysseek()" only work with files
opened in binary mode.
The text/binary issue is covered at length in the Cygwin
documentation.
o PerlIO
PerlIO overrides the default Cygwin Text/Binary
behaviour. A file will always be treated as binary,
regardless of the mode of the mount it lives on, just
like it is in UNIX. So CR/LF translation needs to be
requested in either the "open()" call like this:
open(FH, ">:crlf", "out.txt");
which will do conversion from LF to CR/LF on the output,
or in the environment settings (add this to your
.bashrc):
export PERLIO=crlf
which will pull in the crlf PerlIO layer which does LF
-> CRLF conversion on every output generated by perl.
o .exe
The Cygwin "stat()", "lstat()" and "readlink()"
functions make the .exe extension transparent by looking
for foo.exe when you ask for foo (unless a foo also
exists). Cygwin does not require a .exe extension, but
gcc adds it automatically when building a program.
However, when accessing an executable as a normal file
(e.g., cp in a makefile) the .exe is not transparent.
The install included with Cygwin automatically appends a
.exe when necessary.
o Cygwin vs. Windows process ids
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Cygwin processes have their own pid, which is different
from the underlying windows pid. Most posix compliant
Proc functions expect the cygwin pid, but several
Win32::Process functions expect the winpid. E.g. $$ is
the cygwin pid of /usr/bin/perl, which is not the
winpid. Use "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()" and
"Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()" to translate between them.
o Cygwin vs. Windows errors
Under Cygwin, $^E is the same as $!. When using Win32
API Functions, use "Win32::GetLastError()" to get the
last Windows error.
o "chown()"
On WinNT "chown()" can change a file's user and group
IDs. On Win9x "chown()" is a no-op, although this is
appropriate since there is no security model.
o Miscellaneous
File locking using the "F_GETLK" command to "fcntl()" is
a stub that returns "ENOSYS".
Win9x can not "rename()" an open file (although WinNT
can).
The Cygwin "chroot()" implementation has holes (it can
not restrict file access by native Win32 programs).
Inplace editing "perl -i" of files doesn't work without
doing a backup of the file being edited "perl -i.bak"
because of windowish restrictions, therefore Perl adds
the suffix ".bak" automatically if you use "perl -i"
without specifying a backup extension.
Using "fork()" after loading multiple dlls may fail with
an internal cygwin error like the following:
C:\CYGWIN\BIN\PERL.EXE: *** couldn't allocate memory 0x10000(4128768) for 'C:\CYGWIN\LIB\PERL5\5.6.1\CYGWIN-MULTI\AUTO\SOCKET\SOCKET.DLL' alignment, Win32 error 8
200 [main] perl 377147 sync_with_child: child -395691(0xB8) died before initialization with status code 0x1
1370 [main] perl 377147 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls
Use the rebase utility to resolve the conflicting dll
addresses. The rebase package is included in the Cygwin
netrelease. Use setup.exe from
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe to install it and run
rebaseall.
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Prebuilt methods:
"Cwd::cwd"
Returns the current working directory.
"Cygwin::pid_to_winpid"
Translates a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid
(which may or may not be the same).
"Cygwin::winpid_to_pid"
Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid
(if any).
"Cygwin::win_to_posix_path"
Translates a Windows path to the corresponding cygwin
path respecting the current mount points. With a second
non-null argument returns an absolute path. Double-byte
characters will not be translated.
"Cygwin::posix_to_win_path"
Translates a cygwin path to the corresponding cygwin
path respecting the current mount points. With a second
non-null argument returns an absolute path. Double-byte
characters will not be translated.
"Cygwin::mount_table()"
Returns an array of [mnt_dir, mnt_fsname, mnt_type,
mnt_opts].
perl -e 'for $i (Cygwin::mount_table) {print join(" ",@$i),"\n";}'
/bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode,cygexec
/usr/bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode
/usr/lib c:\cygwin\lib system binmode
/ c:\cygwin system binmode
/cygdrive/c c: system binmode,noumount
/cygdrive/d d: system binmode,noumount
/cygdrive/e e: system binmode,noumount
"Cygwin::mount_flags"
Returns the mount type and flags for a specified mount
point. A comma-separated string of mntent->mnt_type
(always "system" or "user"), then the mntent->mnt_opts,
where the first is always "binmode" or "textmode".
system|user,binmode|textmode,exec,cygexec,cygdrive,mixed,
notexec,managed,nosuid,devfs,proc,noumount
If the argument is "/cygdrive", then just the volume
mount settings, and the cygdrive mount prefix are
returned.
User mounts override system mounts.
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$ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/usr/bin"'
system,binmode,cygexec
$ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/cygdrive"'
binmode,cygdrive,/cygdrive
"Cygwin::is_binmount"
Returns true if the given cygwin path is binary mounted,
false if the path is mounted in textmode.
INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
This will install Perl, including man pages.
make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install
NOTE: If "STDERR" is redirected "make install" will not
prompt you to install perl into /usr/bin.
You may need to be Administrator to run "make install". If
you are not, you must have write access to the directories
in question.
Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML
format can be found in the INSTALL document.
MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
These are the files in the Perl release that contain
references to Cygwin. These very brief notes attempt to
explain the reason for all conditional code. Hopefully,
keeping this up to date will allow the Cygwin port to be
kept as clean as possible.
Documentation
INSTALL README.cygwin README.win32 MANIFEST
pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod pod/perl56delta.pod
pod/perl561delta.pod pod/perl570delta.pod pod/perl572delta.pod
pod/perl573delta.pod pod/perl58delta.pod pod/perl581delta.pod
pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
pod/perltoc.pod pod.lst Porting/Glossary pod/perlrepository.pod
Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Changes ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/README
ext/Compress-Zlib/Changes cpan/Cwd/Changes ext/DB_File/Changes
ext/Encode/Changes ext/Sys-Syslog/Changes ext/Time-HiRes/Changes
ext/Win32API-File/Changes lib/CGI/Changes lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Changes
lib/ExtUtils/Changes lib/ExtUtils/NOTES lib/ExtUtils/PATCHING
lib/ExtUtils/README lib/Module/Build/Changes lib/Net/Ping/Changes
lib/Test/Harness/Changes
lib/Term/ANSIColor/ChangeLog lib/Term/ANSIColor/README
README.symbian symbian/TODO
Build, Configure, Make, Install
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cygwin/Makefile.SHs
ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl
ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
hints/cygwin.sh
Configure - help finding hints from uname,
shared libperl required for dynamic loading
Makefile.SH Cross/Makefile-cross-SH
- linklibperl
Porting/patchls - cygwin in port list
installman - man pages with :: translated to .
installperl - install dll, install to 'pods'
makedepend.SH - uwinfix
regen_lib.pl - file permissions
NetWare/Makefile
plan9/mkfile
symbian/sanity.pl symbian/sisify.pl
hints/uwin.sh
vms/descrip_mms.template
win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
Tests
t/io/fs.t - no file mode checks if not ntsec
skip rename() check when not check_case:relaxed
t/io/tell.t - binmode
t/lib/cygwin.t - builtin cygwin function tests
t/op/groups.t - basegroup has ID = 0
t/op/magic.t - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe//
t/op/stat.t - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk
(cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of file
previously created and deleted), no -u (setuid)
t/op/taint.t - can't use empty path under Cygwin Perl
t/op/time.t - no tzset()
Compiled Perl Source
EXTERN.h - __declspec(dllimport)
XSUB.h - __declspec(dllexport)
cygwin/cygwin.c - os_extras (getcwd, spawn, and several Cygwin:: functions)
perl.c - os_extras, -i.bak
perl.h - binmode
doio.c - win9x can not rename a file when it is open
pp_sys.c - do not define h_errno, init _pwent_struct.pw_comment
util.c - use setenv
util.h - PERL_FILE_IS_ABSOLUTE macro
pp.c - Comment about Posix vs IEEE math under Cygwin
perlio.c - CR/LF mode
perliol.c - Comment about EXTCONST under Cygwin
Compiled Module Source
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ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Makefile.PL
- Can't install via CPAN shell under Cygwin
ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src/zutil.h
- Cygwin is Unix-like and has vsnprintf
ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL - Special handling for Win32 Perl under Cygwin
ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs - tzname defined externally
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c
- EXTCONST needs to be redefined from EXTERN.h
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
- binary open
ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
- Cygwin has syslog.h
ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/compile.pl
- Convert paths to Windows paths
ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.xs
- Various timers not available
ext/Time-HiRes/Makefile.PL
- Find w32api/windows.h
ext/Win32/Makefile.PL - Use various libraries under Cygwin
ext/Win32/Win32.xs - Child dir and child env under Cygwin
ext/Win32API-File/File.xs
- _open_osfhandle not implemented under Cygwin
ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
- __declspec(dllexport)
Perl Modules/Scripts
ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm - Comment about stderr/stdout order under Cygwin
ext/Digest-SHA/bin/shasum
- Use binary mode under Cygwin
ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/Win32.pm
- Convert paths to Windows paths
ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.pm
- Comment about various timers not available
ext/Win32API-File/File.pm
- _open_osfhandle not implemented under Cygwin
ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.pm
- History of Win32CORE under Cygwin
lib/CGI.pm - binmode and path separator
lib/CPANPLUS/Dist/MM.pm - Commented out code that fails under Win32/Cygwin
lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants/Report.pm
- OS classifications
lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants.pm
- Contants for Cygwin
lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Report.pm
- Example of Cygwin report
lib/CPANPLUS/Module.pm
- Abort if running on old Cygwin version
lib/Cwd.pm - hook to internal Cwd::cwd
lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Platform/cygwin.pm
- use gcc for ld, and link to libperl.dll.a
lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder.pm
- Cygwin is Unix-like
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lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - Install and rename issues under Cygwin
lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm - OS classifications
lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm - Example for Cygwin
lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
- require MM_Cygwin.pm
lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm
- canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
lib/File/Fetch.pm - Comment about quotes using a Cygwin example
lib/File/Find.pm - on remote drives stat() always sets st_nlink to 1
lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm - case_tolerant
lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc
lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm - References a message on cygwin.com
lib/File/Spec.pm - Pulls in lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm
lib/File/Temp.pm - no directory sticky bit
lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm - Comment references 'make' under Cygwin
lib/Module/Build/Platform/cygwin.pm
- Use '.' for man page separator
lib/Module/Build.pm - Cygwin is Unix-like
lib/Module/CoreList.pm - List of all module files and versions
lib/Net/Domain.pm - No domainname command under Cygwin
lib/Net/Netrc.pm - Bypass using stat() under Cygwin
lib/Net/Ping.pm - ECONREFUSED is EAGAIN under Cygwin
lib/Pod/Find.pm - Set 'pods' dir
lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm - '-c' switch for pod2man
lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm - Use 'less' pager, and use .exe extension
lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm - Cygwin terminal info
lib/perl5db.pl - use stdin not /dev/tty
utils/perlbug.PL - Add CYGWIN environment variable to report
Perl Module Tests
ext/Compress-Zlib/t/14gzopen.t
cpan/Cwd/t/cwd.t
ext/DB_File/t/db-btree.t
ext/DB_File/t/db-hash.t
ext/DB_File/t/db-recno.t
ext/DynaLoader/t/DynaLoader.t
ext/File-Glob/t/basic.t
ext/GDBM_File/t/gdbm.t
ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t
ext/POSIX/t/time.t
ext/SDBM_File/t/sdbm.t
ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t
ext/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t
ext/Win32/t/Unicode.t
ext/Win32API-File/t/file.t
ext/Win32CORE/t/win32core.t
lib/AnyDBM_File.t
lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t
lib/Archive/Tar/t/02_methods.t
lib/CPANPLUS/t/05_CPANPLUS-Internals-Fetch.t
lib/CPANPLUS/t/20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.t
lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t
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lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command.t
lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Cygwin.t
lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Unix.t
lib/File/Compare.t
lib/File/Copy.t
lib/File/Find/t/find.t
lib/File/Path.t
lib/File/Spec/t/crossplatform.t
lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t
lib/Module/Build/t/destinations.t
lib/Net/hostent.t
lib/Net/Ping/t/110_icmp_inst.t
lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t
lib/Net/t/netrc.t
lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcyg.pod
lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcygo.txt
lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaq.pod
lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaqo.txt
lib/User/grent.t
lib/User/pwent.t
BUGS ON CYGWIN
Support for swapping real and effective user and group IDs
is incomplete. On WinNT Cygwin provides "setuid()",
"seteuid()", "setgid()" and "setegid()". However,
additional Cygwin calls for manipulating WinNT access tokens
and security contexts are required.
AUTHORS
Charles Wilson <[email protected]>, Eric Fifer
<[email protected]>, alexander smishlajev
<[email protected]>, Steven Morlock <[email protected]>,
Sebastien Barre <[email protected]>, Teun Burgers
<[email protected]>, Gerrit P. Haase <[email protected]>,
Reini Urban <[email protected]>, Jan Dubois
<[email protected]>, Jerry D. Hedden <[email protected]>.
HISTORY
Last updated: 2007-09-25
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-512 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.
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