Subject: ANNOUNCE: Date::DateCalc 1.5
From: [email-masked] (Steffen Beyer)
Date: 14 Mar 1996 21:09:04 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

Dear folks,

I've uploaded a new version of my Date::DateCalc module, version 1.5, to
the CPAN.

The reason for this new version is that someone asked for a decoding
routine for dates in american format, i.e., in the order month-day-year.

There is now a new program called "demo_us" included in the distribution
which contains a subroutine "decode_date_us" which does exactly this.

Beware also that you need a compiler capable of handling ANSI C prototypes
and typedef's in order to successfully build the module.

(The GNU gcc is recommended and garanteed to work)

If you used the "shipped with" C compiler "cc" of SunOS or HP-UX to build
Perl, you may have to edit the Makefile (after generating it with "perl
Makefile.PL") in the following way:

change 'CC = cc' to 'CC = gcc'

and

change 'CCCDLFLAGS = -pic' to 'CCCDLFLAGS = -fpic'

(Thanks to Jim Anderson for proposing this patch!)

Have fun with this module!

Yours,
-- 
Steffen Beyer
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