Strawberry Perl 5.24.2.1 released

[kmx]

Strawberry Perl 5.24.2.1 is available at http://strawberryperl.com

More details in Release Notes:
http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.24.2.1-64bit.html
http://strawberryperl.com/release-notes/5.24.2.1-32bit.html

I would like to thank our sponsor Enlightened Perl Organisation
[http://www.enlightenedperl.org] for resources provided to our project.

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kmx

[sisy...@optusnet.com.au]

-----Original Message-----
From: kmx
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 8:00 AM
To: win32-...@perl.org
Subject: Strawberry Perl 5.24.2.1 released

> Strawberry Perl 5.24.2.1 is available at http://strawberryperl.com

I'm curious (in a fairly idle sort of way ;-) to know 2 things:

1) What version of gcc was used to build the 64-bit perl ? (I'm assuming it
would be 7.1.0, but maybe that's not the policy.)
2) Was perl.h patched in accordance with the patch provided to
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121683 ?

I know I can get the answers by downloading the perl in question, or by
directly asking ... but is there some other way I can find out ?

Cheers,
Rob

[sisy...@optusnet.com.au]

-----Original Message-----
From: kmx
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 10:51 PM
To: sisy...@optusnet.com.au ; win32-...@perl.org
Subject: Re: Strawberry Perl 5.24.2.1 released

> On 21.07.2017 14:11, sisy...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
>> 1) What version of gcc was used to build the 64-bit perl ? (I'm assuming
>> it would be 7.1.0, but maybe that's not the policy.)
>

> It is gcc 4.9.2 as it is 5.24.x series, gcc 7.1.0 is used in 5.26.x
> series.

Aaah ... wasn't sure of the "rules".

>> 2) Was perl.h patched in accordance with the patch provided to
>> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121683 ?
>

> No, IMO it does not affect gcc 4.9.2. I know about this patch but I am
> waiting for 5.26.1.

It doesn't seem to affect 5.3.0 or 5.4.0 either but it does affect 6.3.0 and
later - so I'm guessing that it affects version 6 onwards.
BTW, I have filed a perlbug report about this -
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131726

> If there is no 5.26.1 till the end of August I'll release Strawberry Perl
> 5.26.0.2 at the beginning of September with the patch in question.

Steve Hay posted today (to p5p) that "5.26.1 is slated for sometime in
August".
I've requested that the patch to perl.h be backported to any future releases
(as well as being applied to blead) ... but who knows what will eventuate
...

Cheers,
Rob