[Xastir-Dev] Problems building on Cygwin

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Looks like 5.8 requires explicit calls to the modules in question.  If
> you were calling (I'm more familiar with the Mapserver stuff I just
> debugged, so forgive me):  $point = new pointObj(), now you've got to
> call the entire module reference:  $point  = new mapscript::pointObj()
>
> This could be part of your problem...  I've decided 5.8 is somewhere
> between wierd and evil.
>
> gerry
>
> Jack Twilley wrote:
> > It's bad form to reply to myself, but I just wanted to say that the
> > problem was related to running perl 5.8.0 and that installing 5.6.1
> > fixed everything.
> >
> > Jack.

That sucks.  Does that mean we need to document yet another problem
with the Cygwin packages in README.win32?  We don't want more users
running into the same snag.

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