ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003, a
complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X,
Linux, Solaris, and AIX.

This build is based on the release version of Perl 5.10.0.

For detailed information or to download this release, see:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl

New in ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003
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* ActivePerl::Config on Windows now dynamically sets the
$Config{ccversion} to the version of cl.exe. This allows
ExtUtils::MakeMaker to generate and embed manifest files
into extension DLL when required by the specific version of
the C compiler.

* The GCC support for Windows in ActivePerl::Config now adds the
-mms- bitfields option to the ccflags when compiling with GCC.
This forces identical struct layouts with Visual C++, which is
used to compile ActivePerl itself. This has become important
because core Perl 5.10 now uses bit-fields for some important
structures.

I have a Perl file upload script I'd been using for years under Apache 1 in Tiger. I haven't
modified it in ages. No mod_perl, just CGI.pm and the default Perl installation. It's always worked
fine for files of any size (some as many as a gigabyte and taking more than an hour to upload), but
since upgrading to Leopard, with its Apache2 nonsense, the script fails on large files -- anything
over a megabyte -- with this being output to the browser:

"CGI.pm: Server closed socket during multipart read (client aborted?).".

This is the only error message logged, too. I've tested this with multiple clients on different
operating systems and it's the same every time, unless the file's smaller than 1MB, in which case
the script executes as it should. I added a debugging line to the upload hook that runs when I first
create my CGI query object, and it reports the bytes increasing up to a point, after which it keeps
logging these messages but the number of bytes stays static. It's never the exact same number but
the files always seem to fail above 1 megabyte, with about 1.4 being the upper limit I've seen so far.

Any ideas? Thanks

Very helpful - I need the Intel hint.

Couple of quibbles - you should use "make check", not "make test".

On Ghostscript, you can just use '--disable-cups' in the ./configure command
- much to be preferred over Makefile editing.

Just wondering if anyone actually does it...

Robert

Are there good directions on getting mp2 compiled and installed with
Apache2.2 on Leopard?

Robert

I have developed a Perl module in MacOSX using Arhive::Zip. This library
seems to be installed
in the Perl version on the Mac (Perl v5.8.8). In porting this program to a
Linux machine running Perl v5.8.5, Archive::Zip is missing. I do not
want to
install in this current Perl library by using CPAN. What I would like to
do is define my own library
and use "#!/usr/bin/perl -I " name.

I have download all the modules from CPAN I need:

Archive-Zip
Compress-Raw-Zlib
Compress-Zlib
IO-Compress-Base
IO-Compress-Zlib

Hi,

I'm trying to tap into the NSDistributedNotificationCenter with Perl.

The simplest script that almost works is this:

#### START
package Listener;
use strict;
use Foundation;

sub start {
my ($class) = @_;
my $self = bless {}, $class;

my $center = NSDistributedNotificationCenter->defaultCenter;
$center->addObserver_selector_name_object_($self, 'updated',
"org.simplicidade.guy.whatsup", undef);
NSRunLoop->currentRunLoop->run;
}

sub updated {}

package main;
use strict;

Listener->start;

In article 203.8.112.3]>,
peter@stairways.com.au (Peter N Lewis) wrote:

Are any of you using perl plugins with apple's mail browser?

What I'm thinking of is something along the lines of supplementing
the overly-simple rules in apple mail with some perl re. Things like
funneling all the broken header junk off the top and into one folder,
catching the real sharpos that like to put my mail address in the
return address of the junk mail and putting that in a separate
folder, that kind of stuff.

I'm sure it could be done with the scripting api, but I'm always all
thumbs with applescript.

I've been looking around the web, and there are tantalizing clues,
but not enough for a lame-brain like myself to grab hold of.

If anyone is doing something like this, can you hit me with a cluestick?

Joel Rees
(waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out,
to test Steve's willingness to switch again.)

Hi,

Below is my Perl script. The script named, test1.pl

test1.pl

#!/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.10/bin/perl -w

print "$^O\n";

I have to type, "perl test1.pl" in order to run it. I got command not found if I simply typed test1.pl. Can someone tell me why and how to fix it?

test1.pl
-bash: test1.pl: command not found

Thanks

Gary