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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:14:34PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > >Alan found problems in the symbol scanning, I know VMS is unhappy, > >we still have some problems in BSD smokes, Arthur still wants some > >ithreads things in, Net::Ping is failing some tests in Win32, and > >NI-S needs to fix an ugly Win32 vs perlio issue (bug #21743), but > >nevertheless I think it's the time to start thinking about RC1. > > I can come up with a fix for Solaris, but all that sedding of the nm output > in Configure looks distinctly fragile. My intention would be to stop the > removal of the leading '_'s from symbols, but I'm not at all clear if this > should be done for all the sed pattern variants around line 7225 of > Configure, or just the one that Solaris uses. I'm worried at exposing symbols in platforms other than Solaris, at least for maint, at least now. > -- > Alan Burlison > -- -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThread Previous | Thread Next