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Hello, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Rainer Tammer wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have attached two patches for Perl 5.10.1 (patch 0002-hits should also >> work for bleed). >> >> patch 0001: >> >> Updated README.aix for Perl 5.10.x. >> > > applied to blead as e3c125ffa5002b0ab2c402446f4e5b2850b634aa, and > cherry-picked into maint. > > Is there any reason this patch isn't suitable for blead too? > > My reason was that there are references to a specific Perl branch (5.10.x) in the document. Blead will be 5.12... but you are right, if 5.12.0 is ready for release I will change the file anyway... >> patch 0002: >> >> Remove libgdbm from wanted libs. The AIX Toolbox libgdbm has an non >> working dbm_store() function (64 bit). If this version of dbm_store() >> gets used then you will get an seg fault. >> > > applied to blead as c533d96e5f6c9e94d3d34f6ff54accc877705220, and > cherry-picked into maint. > > Note that Merijn is currently on vacation for two weeks, and I know very > little about Configure nor AIX; but since the patch affects only > hints/aix.sh, I guess the risk is localised. So I've pulled it into maint > for now. > > Thanks. I think it should be save to remove gdbm from the libswanted. This bug in the AIX Toolbox version of lib gdbm was a bit hard to find. I first thought that this was the reincarnation of an compiler or libc bug. Luckily only the lib gdbm was faulty. As this lib is not really needed I simply removed it... >> P.S.: This are my first git formated patches. I hope they are correct... >> > > Well, the individual patches were compressed, which meant they weren't > easily viewable within an email, and 'git am' didn't seem to recoginise > within the mailbox, so I have to individually save, them, uncompress them > ,then 'git am' them. But I'm not much or of an expert on 'git am' myself > (most of my maint stuff is vie 'fgit chery-pick', so I could be doing > something wrong. > > > I often had problems with in lining of text documents in mails. If this is no problem on the list I will stop packing the patches. Unfortunately I can not send the patch directly via git... Thanks for you help. > > Bye RainerThread Previous | Thread Next