On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Anton Berezin wrote: > Without this patch, 5.6.0-RC2 does not compile on FreeBSD 5.0-current > (which has just been born). With it, all tests are successful for both > > -3.*|4.0*) > +3.*|4.*|5.0*) But that will not be useful once 5.1 comes out, which could certainly happen during perl-5.6.0's lifetime. Quoting hints/README.txt: If you need to test for specific minor version differences in your hints file, be sure to include a default choice. (See aix.sh for one example.) That way, if you write a hint file for foonix 3.2, it might still work without any changes when foonix 3.3 is released. That is, do something like case "$osvers" in [0-2]*) # do nothing ;; *) # Known to work at least from 3.0 - 5.0 # do whatever needs to be done. ;; esac Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042Thread Previous | Thread Next