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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:11:35PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > >I'm worried at exposing symbols in platforms other than Solaris, > >at least for maint, at least now. > > Me too, but I don't think it it *too* risky, as the only additional symbols > which will be exposed are the '_' ones, which I don't believe perl probes > for anyway, and the ones that wil dissapear aren't actually there in the > first place. Any that rely on macro munging will be picked up by the test > compile that is done if the symbol can't be grepped out of the nm output. > It amazes me that the current stuff has ever worked, it it just *so* broken. Says you :-) > Is that a 'fix just the Solaris case in Configure' then? In which case I For maint, then. > have a patch. > > -- > 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