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On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:06:08 -0300, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:40:54PM -0300, Brian Fraser wrote: > > > The applied patch isn't intrusive and does help the current > > > cross-compilation situation, so no need to revert it or anything, but > > > whenever castaway's branch is merged we can deal with this better, > > perhaps > > > doing something like this: > > > > > https://github.com/Hugmeir/utf8mess/commit/e4c8127787478ea81e5de0e6d358146940908433 > > > > What's the chance of at least part of castaway's branch landing? > > > > I suspect having it land as one huge chunk is going to be painful. > > From a quick look, if the ~20 not-android-related commits that change > Configure land, everything else is pretty self-contained and should be easy > to feed incrementally. Tux said those needed to be okay'd by Nicholas and > rjbs beforehand, though. With just the Configure-specific bits, you could > get a full(?) perl on the raspi, and a half-working perl in android that's > closer to miniperl than anything else, but a perl nonetheless. Tests for > both would only go as far as porting/. > A roadblock is that it'll break WinCE again, because those Makefiles need > to be updated manually. I need signals well in advance please, so I can start the work. If I integrate this branch, I will have to break down all the Configure changes into separate diff's for meta, and I will regenerate Configure into one single blead commit, unless higher powers want to see each commit back in Configure changes like cherry-picks (which they are not) -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous