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Re: unhappy darwin -Dusemorebits (was Re: Smoke [5.17.4]v5.17.3-184-g699aa44 FAIL(F) darwin 12.1.0 (Intel Core 2 Duo/))

From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
September 5, 2012 06:15
Subject:
Re: unhappy darwin -Dusemorebits (was Re: Smoke [5.17.4]v5.17.3-184-g699aa44 FAIL(F) darwin 12.1.0 (Intel Core 2 Duo/))
Message ID:
20120905151518.7200dc6e@pc09.procura.nl
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 07:13:48 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty
<doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:

> > I tested removing the first branch of the #if combined with
> > -Dalignbytes=16, which worked.  
> 
> Thank you for testing.  I'm still polishing a fix, but should get 
> something up in the next few days.  It's complicated because metaconfig 
> (the tool used to build Configure) doesn't seem to work under recent 
> perls, though I haven't figured out why.

I work with metaconfig under 5.16.0 - which I consider a recent perl.
So if there is something wrong, either I fixed it locally, or it is
fixed in the new meta suite. Where can I help?

> > This worked, passing all tests except porting/regen.t (since the
> > canned config files aren't updated.)  
> 
> Right.  I'd probably have caught those too, but thanks for the 
> reminder.
> 
> Again, thank you for the quick testing.

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