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From:
Steve Peters
Date:
January 31, 2005 13:05
Subject:
Re: [perl #33998] [PATCH] Support for GNU/kFreeBSD
Message ID:
20050131210502.GA8477@mccoy.peters.homeunix.org
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.
> 

You can get the most recent version with rsync by doing

rsync -avz rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ .

Steve Peters
steve@fisharerojo.org



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