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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:41:43AM -0400, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:
> > Simple, you say -- call the new snapshot 5.8.2 instead. Then you build
> > and install it so the experimental post-5.8.1 snapshot shared libperl is
> > in $prefix/lib/5.8.2/$archname/CORE/libperl.so. No conflicts, so far.
> >
> > But -- now suppose the *real* 5.8.2 comes out, and is significantly
> > different in some way from your already-installed snapshot (e.g. hashes
> > are changed in a binary incompatible way). Now, as you try to build the
> > real 5.8.2, you're picking up your experimental incompatible post-5.8.1
> > snapshot libperl.so instead!
>
> Can you be more explicit about what would pick up the old libperl.so?
> Do you mean while testing the newly build real 5.8.2?
Yes.
> And if there is
> a problem here, it exists for the release candidates already.
Yes again. One hopes it's not as serious since we hope release candidates
don't usually differ in binary incompatible ways from actual releases.
> > What to do? I normally recommend using a different $prefix for installing
> > experimental versions.
>
> That would work.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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