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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
April 22, 2010 14:23
Subject:
Re: [perl #74564] hints/freebsd.sh not freebsd 7+ aware
Message ID:
alpine.DEB.2.00.1004221721060.17438@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:38:35 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty
> <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> > 
> > > # New Ticket Created by  Todd Rinaldo 
> > > # Please include the string:  [perl #74564]
> > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
> > > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=74564 >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > When running configure on FreeBSD 7+, the following error message is printed when hints are run:
> > > 
> > > ./hints/freebsd.sh: /usr/bin/objformat: not found
> > > 
> > > The reason for this is outlined in this email from Feb 2007
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-February/038523.html
> > > 
> > > As hints run now, it should be executing the non-a.out code, so the below patch should be applied to fix this. 
> > 
> > Thanks.  Applied as commit a8ca765fc246174faebe5c6c3eae7c25b571ece2
> 
> +1 for 5.12.1

I don't really care either way.  It's a quite safe fix, but the warning it 
silences was a harmless warning too.  (The hints already had the correct 
forward-thinking fallback.)

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu


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