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Whenever Sarathy says, ``Try this'', you might like to make use of
file: $CPAN/authors/id/ANDK/CPAN-patchaperlup-0.002.tar.gz
size: 3311 bytes
md5: 0dfab239f4263fbf6568c34aff269599
This is a small script that applies all latest or selected patches
from Sarathy's repository to a devel perl. It applies them in the
correct order and fixes the CR/LF problem efficiently. The manpage
contains the following recipe to build the perl de jour:
DEVPERL=perl5.5.660
wget -m -nd -v ftp://cpan.host.and.path/authors/id/GSAR/$DEVPERL.tar.gz
tar xzf $DEVPERL.tar.gz
wget -r -m -v ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/diffs
patchaperlup --perldir $DEVPERL > patchaperlup.out
LPATCH=`awk '$1=="Lastpatch:"{print $2}' patchaperlup.out`
mv $DEVPERL $DEVPERL..$LPATCH
cd $DEVPERL..$LPATCH && ./Configure -des && make test
I hope this helps P5P people to sync their code base during the last
few days before the release.
I'm not sure where the best place is to keep this script. It might fit
into Porting/ directory, and I wouldn't mind to have it there so the
pumpkin can always adjust the script to changing conventions.
Otherwise if the conventions change significantly, the whole script
may become obsolete. I leave it to Sarathy's judgement to decide.
Enjoy,
--
andreas
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