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Re: 5.10.1 build fails on AIX 5.3

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From:
Bill Kurland
Date:
June 28, 2010 19:55
Subject:
Re: 5.10.1 build fails on AIX 5.3
Message ID:
4C29607A.3070603@panix.com
On 6/28/2010 10:43 PM, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:01:37PM -0400, Bill Kurland wrote:
>    
>> Thanks in advance for your time in looking at this. If this is the
>> wrong place to post this, please correct me.
>>
>> I am trying to build 5.10.1  under AIX 5.3. The README.aix says that
>> this has been done successfully with gcc 4.2
>>      
> Bill,
>
> Perl 5.10 is no longer the current "stable" version of Perl. Is it
> possible for you to repeat your tests against 5.12.1?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jesse
>
>    
I will try that, thanks. But that brings up another [off topic] 
question: is it always best to work with the most current stable 
release? In the past I've had some real frustrations because modules I'd 
used with an earlier version were not available or didn't work with the 
newest version. This is more of a concern when working in a win32 
environment - I don't have a windows C compiler - but still ...


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