Re: JPL and perl5.005_02

> The company I work for uses perl extensively with Tk to create our UI's.
> We now have a need for a java-perl interface. I have got JPL working with
> 5.004 of perl but we currently use perl 5.005_02 and a) jpl won't seem to
> build with this version and b) we would prefer not to regress to 5.004.
> Has anyone managed to get JPL working with perl 5.005_02 please?

> Secondly, I got hold of the 5.6.0 source, built it, and told it to build a
> libperl.so. the JPL included in this release builds bug segv's when it
> comes to running the sample program. the jdk I am using is 1.1.8 on
> Solaris 2.5.1 (on a sparc Ultra 5) and only has green_thread support.
> Could this be a jdk problem? Here is the output:



What kind of problems do you now encounter with 5.005_02?

[ I've never built with green threads but JPL has worked with various
versions of Solaris 2x,  5.005_03 and 5.6,  jdk1.8. It even
builds on  jdk1.2/3 (with a patch to perl.c). ]

Rgds,
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Charles DeRykus