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Re: [perl #33998] [PATCH] Support for GNU/kFreeBSD

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From:
Robert Millan
Date:
January 31, 2005 11:32
Subject:
Re: [perl #33998] [PATCH] Support for GNU/kFreeBSD
Message ID:
20050131192500.GA5856@khazad.dyndns.org
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:10:51PM -0000, H. Merijn Brand via RT wrote:
> > 
> > Support for GNU/kFreeBSD.  Please could you apply to both 5.9.x and 5.8.x
> > branches?  I have verified that perl passes the testsuite on each of them.
> > 
> > diff -Nur perl-5.9.1.old/Configure perl-5.9.1/Configure
> > --- perl-5.9.1.old/Configure	2004-02-26 14:17:41.000000000 +0100
> > +++ perl-5.9.1/Configure	2005-01-31 02:49:40.000000000 +0100
> 
> I have submitted change 23909 to the development branch of perl.
> Note that we are on 5.9.2 currently, and your patch was against 5.9.1

I could only find 5.9.1 in the ftp server.  Is there a cvs/svn repository or
something I'm missing?

> Also note that changes to Configure are never (when done right) applied to
> Configure itself, since this is a generated file, so patches are always done
> by hand, and the final change may or may not be *exactly* what you proposed as
> patch

Ah, I was unaware of this.  If you tell me how to generate Configure, I could
send a patch for the template files/generator/whatever.

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