On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 10:39:38AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
Yes redhat 9. Hmm, OK; so now I did a google for "redhat 9 perl
unicode" and only found one hit which didn't identify the problem but
gave instructions for building openSSL on redhat 9 because there was
some redhat 9 brokenness.
The short answer: do
export LC_ALL=C
On
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata.html
there is no mention of a perl rpm bug fix being available.
I did find this in their bug database, so it may be they haven't
figured out the reason all their scripts are blowing up is because
they've broken unicode support.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682
they have a work around of changing the LANG string to remove the UTF8
from it which I guess is the default on redhat 9.
Do you know if that is a work around or a fix.
(I added some comments to their bug entry).
Adam
% perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-2.48smp, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
uname='linux str'
config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -g
-Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root(_at_)localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red
Hat, Inc. -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux
-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
-Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid
-Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm
-Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly
-Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef'
useithreads=define usemultiplicity=
useperlio= d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=un uselongdouble=
usemymalloc=, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
optimize='',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.2.2 20030213 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.2-1)',
gccosandvers=''
gccversion='3.2.2 200302'
intsize=e, longsize= , ptrsize=p, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long'
k', ivsize=4'
ivtype='long'
known_ext, nvtype='double'
o_nonbl', nvsize=, Off_t='', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='gcc'
l', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
ldf'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil
perllibs=
libc=/lib/libc-2.3.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libper
gnulibc_version='2.3.1'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so', d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
cccdlflags='-fPIC'
ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5', lddlflags='s
Unicode/Normalize XS/A'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
Locally applied patches:
MAINT18379
Built under linux
Compiled at Feb 18 2003 22:19:53
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
.
Adam
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 11:43:56AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 07:39:38AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
So if you do "man perlunicode" it says your pre 5.6 scripts should
basically work as is.
However I'm finding in practice the simplest concievable example
doesn't work, viz:
% perl -e 'use bytes; print chr(255)' | od -tx1
0000000 c3 bf
Let me guess: you are using RedHat?
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this
special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
