Re: Trying to push out a new Win32::API release

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:19:06 +1100, Jan Dubois <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Jan Dubois wrote:
>>
>> As I suspected, there is indeed something wrong with the bundled  
>> API_test.dll.
>
> Actually, it turns out the issue was with using Cygwin git. :(  Because  
> the *.dll files in the repo have 644 onstead of 755 permissions they  
> won't get the FILE_EXECUTE permission on NTFS when checked out with  
> Cygwin git, which means they can't be loaded with LoadLibrary().
>
> A simple `chmod +x *.dll` fixes this problem.  Maybe the mode should be
> changed in github to prevent someone else falling into the same trap?

Done now. (6ec0306cfc5529918b1c5a6cccdd9f4de9f232a1)

> So I'm not sure where this leaves us with the releasability of the  
> current codebase.  I'll look into the 03_undef.t failure a little more,
> but obviously don't know how long it is going to take me.


I tried to build t/03_undef.t based on a bug report,
but I wasn't able to properly test it, so assume
it could be totally wrong.

-- 
Cosimo