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Re: [PATCH] Symbian sync
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From:
Steve Peters
Date:
April 1, 2007 06:13
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Symbian sync
Message ID:
20070401131251.GB2096@kirk.peters.homeunix.org
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:30:09PM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Small regressions conquered.
>
> (1) PL_reg_names[] was new globally modifiable data. Cannot be.
> regcomp.pl tweaked to constify it, run to regen regnodes.h.
>
> (2) AutoSplit.pm had joined 5.9.5-only club. This posed a problem
> to Symbian build (or many cross-compiling builds, I guess) where
> the host Perl (probably q 5.8.x) tried to use the AutoSplit.pm when
> building the extensions. I had to resort to quite ugly tricks,
> hopefully it now works for both 5.8.x and 5.9.x. I hope Rafael
> forgives me for backpedaling his 5.9-pride :-) (Of course one
> could make a requirement that to cross-build Perl x.y you need
> to have Perl x.y also in the host, but that would sound cruel.
> Being backward compat to at least the previous maint sounds nicer.)
>
> (3) I did the build with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition,
> which uses the Microsoft Visual C 8, instead of the old VC6,
> and amazingly it worked. So noted.
>
Thanks! I applied your corrected patch as change #30824.
Steve Peters
steve@fisharerojo.org
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