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Re: v5.5.650, aka five point six beta1, is out

From:
David R. Favor
Date:
February 9, 2000 04:01
Subject:
Re: v5.5.650, aka five point six beta1, is out
Message ID:
38A15713.E10A115E@austin.ibm.com
[...snip...]

> Some things are broken:
> 
>   - Configure sometimes decides to give up too easy.  If this happens to
>     you, apply the attached patch.
>   - Perl's malloc appears to coredump on IRIX
>   - the Compiler is probably broken under usethreads
>   - C<while ($i++ < 10000) { my $i = *FOO }> appears to leak

File/Glob.pm problem breaks compilation, at least on the latest AIX.



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