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Re: [perl #20606] [PATCH} openbsd hints

From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
January 29, 2003 23:43
Subject:
Re: [perl #20606] [PATCH} openbsd hints
Message ID:
20030130084127.D2AF.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Wed 29 Jan 2003 19:38, "Todd C. Miller" (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> The following diff against the current version of hints/openbsd.sh
> does the following:
> 
>  1) OpenBSD still doesn't have a "real" vfork.  The version that
>     was slated for 2.7 never happened.
> 
>  2) OpenBSD 3.3 will have real setre?[ug]id() functions.
> 
>  3) Add workarounds for deficiencies in the (nascent) hppa port.
> 
>  4) Adding -lpthread to libswanted is bogus, and OpenBSD 3.3 will
>     no longer use libc_r.  The correct way to handle threads is to
>     simply add -pthread to the compile and link lines.  It may be
>     safest to simply set "usenm=false" but I haven't done that here
>     since Configure seems to do the right thing even when threading
>     is enabled.

Thanks, applied as change #18602

Please do not submit patches to the RT, but suggest these to the perl5 porters
mailing list directly, since these can hardly be called bugs.

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