develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from October 2003

Re: 5.8.0 -> 5.8.1 breakage on Debian: HTML::Parser failure

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
October 9, 2003 16:07
Subject:
Re: 5.8.0 -> 5.8.1 breakage on Debian: HTML::Parser failure
Message ID:
20031009230710.GA2004@perlsupport.com
According to Gisle Aas:
> Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> writes:
> > I tried setting PERL_HASH_SEED to 0 and rerunning make test.  Sure
> > enough, all the tests for WWW::Mechanize now passed!
> 
> If the hash is initialized in an 5.8.0 extension and then used 5.8.1
> core which hash randomization then the hash values might not match any
> more.  Hash lookups will then fail.

In that case, the ABI isn't compatible and it shouldn't claim to be ...?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About