releases.)
----------------
+Version 5.003_07
+----------------
+
+This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
+in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
+testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004.
+
+If it doesn't work for you, try
+
+ LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
+
+for Bourne shell users, or
+
+ setenv LC_ALL C
+
+for C-shell users. Some versions of IRIX are reported to have
+problems with sort when the locale is other than C. This manifests
+as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step.
+
+The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Support for BER compressed integers. See perlfunc.pod for
+ documentation on the 'w' option.
+
+ -untaint support added to IO extension.
+
+o Changes in Core Internals
+
+ -Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
+ as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
+ with 5.003. (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.)
+
+ -Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4.
+
+o Configure and build enhancements
+
+ -improved SCO hints. Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but
+ they may be right.
+
+ -OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -print sort (4,1,3,2);
+
+ -group numbers are integers again.
+
+ -other things. See the specific changes for details.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07.
+
+ Fixed a spelling error.
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc.
+ Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test
+ program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of
+ Configure have moved around unchanged. The patch is big but the
+ effect is little.
+
+ Allow for both <sys/select.h> and <time.h> in fd_set tests.
+ Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one
+ or the other in the hints file for now.
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values.
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ os2/Changes added.
+
+Index: Makefile.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with
+ shared library target, which is delegated to
+ $osname/Makefile.SHs if found.
+ config.h should depend on config_h.SH.
+
+ Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly
+ sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked).
+
+Index: README.os2
+
+ New version.
+
+Index: config_H
+
+ Update SH_PATH comment.
+
+Index: config_h.SH
+
+ Update SH_PATH comment.
+
+Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad
+ things it can do.
+
+Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
+ I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
+ and we might need to hide it.
+
+Index: gv.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Better error message for overload.
+
+Index: hints/os2.sh
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some
+ memory present - 32M should be quite enough).
+ Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately.
+ libc was in .../st/... instead of mt.
+ README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod.
+
+Index: hints/sco.sh
+
+ Don't include <sys/select.h> along with <time.h>.
+
+Index: installperl
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install).
+
+Index: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be
+ done outside of OS/2 too?).
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ `bool' entry added.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!).
+
+Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Subject: Cleanup after new test
+
+ Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just
+ plain broken under OS/2 and VMS)
+
+Index: lib/FindBin.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module
+
+Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Update to version 2.4.
+
+Index: lib/lib.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400
+ From: "Brent B. Powers" <powers@ml.com>
+ Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm
+
+ Ignore undefined entries.
+
+Index: lib/newgetopt.pl
+
+ Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long.
+
+Index: makedepend.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH
+ (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH
+ with more than two '.' Such names are illegal on some systems.)
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 ()
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06
+
+ The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error
+ introduced in 5.003_06. This patch is required to fix the bug:
+
+Index: os2/Changes
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
+ updates for fork()ing.
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ added.
+
+Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Convoluted process to create chimera executables added.
+ aout_clean is done automatically on clean.
+
+Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Use `unlink' where appropriate.
+
+Index: os2/diff.configure
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: os2/os2.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ /bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe.
+ popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now).
+ builtins added for the sake of path manipulation.
+
+Index: os2/os2ish.h
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
+ updates for fork()ing.
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ Change to subversion 7.
+
+Index: perl.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}
+
+ I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
+ (the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries
+ is frightning!).
+
+ If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range
+ of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
+ Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
+ I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
+ and we might need to hide it.
+
+Index: plan9/aperl
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/buildinfo
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/config.plan9
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/exclude
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/fndvers
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/genconfig.pl
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/mkfile
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/plan9.c
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/plan9ish.h
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/setup.rc
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/versnum
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE.
+ OS/2-specific messages added.
+
+Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: pod/perli18n.pod
+
+ Updated version with high bits intact.
+
+Index: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Crossrefs corrected.
+
+Index: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4
+ and perl5.
+
+Index: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ $^E under OS/2.
+
+Index: pp.c
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT
+ From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
+
+ The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened
+ with write privileges for chsize to work correctly.
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work
+
+ >> > print sort (4,1,2,3);
+ >> >
+ >> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort. Bug? Feature?
+
+ This broke between 5.001n and 5.002. There was a long winded thread
+ about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around
+ the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on
+ p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that
+ the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called:
+
+ Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above
+ code breaks! Here's a patch against 5.00306.
+
+Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Better error message on dying.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_taint.t
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle.
+
+Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/odbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/socket.t
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX)
+
+ fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is
+ rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases.
+
+Index: t/op/pack.t
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: t/op/sort.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined
+ as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does).
+
+Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
+ From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Subject: Re: sh Configure?
+
+ Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
+ in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
+ pathname of the file being extracted.
+
+Index: x2p/cflags.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
+ From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Subject: Re: sh Configure?
+
+ Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
+ in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
+ pathname of the file being extracted.
+
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_06
----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
-Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for
locales, including LC_COLLATE. See the new pod/perli18n.pod.
- Thanks to Jarkkko Hietaniemi.
+ Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi.
-new version of Math::Complex, with test suite. Ought to be
backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex.