X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperl58delta.pod;h=295724f0f76de9454e00e5393de232ec00389ff8;hb=cdd94ca776dceea28cef3714a8bc6d873614b2bf;hp=3bef17ba1f67e9d9605d4ee42e5dbffd4dc1348a;hpb=61de9fb5aad39c2904a43125c7c70031be6bc679;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perl58delta.pod b/pod/perl58delta.pod index 3bef17b..295724f 100644 --- a/pod/perl58delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl58delta.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0 +perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0 =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ The template letters are C, C, C, and C. =item * -C can now be used to force a string to UTF8. +C can now be used to force a string to UTF-8. =item * @@ -1905,17 +1905,17 @@ for site-wide changes). If your file system supports symbolic links, you can build Perl outside of the source directory by - mkdir /tmp/perl/build/directory - cd /tmp/perl/build/directory + mkdir perl/build/directory + cd perl/build/directory sh /path/to/perl/source/Configure -Dmksymlinks ... -This will create in /tmp/perl/build/directory a tree of symbolic links +This will create in perl/build/directory a tree of symbolic links pointing to files in /path/to/perl/source. The original files are left unaffected. After Configure has finished, you can just say make all test -and Perl will be built and tested, all in /tmp/perl/build/directory. +and Perl will be built and tested, all in perl/build/directory. [561] =item * @@ -2475,7 +2475,7 @@ C, C, and C now match titlecase. Concatenation with the C<.> operator or via variable interpolation, C, C, C, C, the C operator, -substitution with C, single-quoted UTF8, should now work. +substitution with C, single-quoted UTF-8, should now work. =item * @@ -2992,7 +2992,7 @@ Using splice() past the end of an array now causes a warning. =item * Malformed Unicode encodings (UTF-8 and UTF-16) cause a lot of warnings, -ad doestrying to use UTF-16 surrogates (which are unimplemented). +as does trying to use UTF-16 surrogates (which are unimplemented). =item * @@ -3545,6 +3545,12 @@ be exact. (They produce something other than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using the printf format "%.0f"; most often, they produce "0" and "-0".) +=head2 SCO + +The socketpair tests are known to be unhappy in SCO 3.2v5.0.4: + + ext/Socket/socketpair.t...............FAILED tests 15-45 + =head2 Solaris 2.5 In case you are still using Solaris 2.5 (aka SunOS 5.5), you may