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Salvador Fandino
Date:
June 10, 2013 08:43
Subject:
Re: How does one smoke dist/* (was: Storable refactoring, was Re: [perl #118139] Storable in DESTROY blocks)
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----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit-p5p@rabbit.us>
> To: Salvador Fandino <sfandino@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "perl5-porters@perl.org" <perl5-porters@perl.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 8:30 AM
> Subject: How does one smoke dist/* (was: Storable refactoring, was Re:
 [perl #118139] Storable in DESTROY blocks)
> 
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:13:02AM -0700, Salvador Fandino wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>>  > From: Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>
>>  > To: Salvador Fandino <sfandino@yahoo.com>
>>  > Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org
>>  > Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 6:19 PM
>>  > Subject: Re: Storable refactoring, was Re: [perl #118139] Storable in 
> DESTROY
>>   blocks
>>  > 
>>  > * Salvador Fandino <sfandino@yahoo.com> [2013-05-29T13:22:17]
>>  >>  I have been working for some time in refactoring Storable. See
>>  >> 
>>  >>   https://github.com/salva/perl5/tree/improve_storable
>>  > 
>>  > Wow, no kidding!  It looks like you've gotten some feedback on 
> this, please 
>>  > let
>>  > me know if you need anything specific to help things move foward.
>> 
>>  My biggest problem at the moment is getting old perl versions to compile 
> and work.
> 
> Weird... I had no notable problems configuring/compiling/bootstraping 
> both 5.6.1 and 5.6.2.

Witch OS/distribution are you using? 


> I hit another roadblock however - I am not sure how to properly build a 
> dual-life dist from the perl tree. This is what I get on a more recent 
> perl:

I got the latest Storable version available from CPAN and used it as the base replacing Storable.pm and Storable.xs with the ones from core.

I suppose the standalone version should also be under version control somewhere, but didn't bother to investigate that.

BTW, in order to compile my version of Storable with old perl versions you also need the ptr_table.h file that is available from https://github.com/salva/p5-Storable

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