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From:
Rainer Tammer
Date:
July 17, 2009 10:48
Subject:
Re: 5.10.1 status update / patch for README.aix / aix.sh hints
Message ID:
4A60B970.9000703@tammer.net
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
  Rainer

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