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Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> writes: > Perl has never #defined a PERL_PATCHLEVEL, so I don't think that could > have ever fully "worked". (See diff of patchlevel.h between 5.005_50 > and 5.6.0.) Yeah, I was wondering if that were the case. I kept it just out of paranoia. > I think the breakage you're referring to may be due to the fact that > __PATCHLEVEL_H_INCLUDED__ has been #defined by default since 5.005_62 > (15 October 1999). Certainly not a "last minute change". Oh, I wasn't arguing it was a last-minute change; in fact, checking my notes, it's been a problem for a while in INN. I just never got a good enough handle on it to figure out just what was going on until now. Sorry for being unclear. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next