On Tue, Feb 20 2001, Brian Ingerson wrote:
> Norbert Gruener wrote:
> > this is the same problem I have reported in January. As a workaround
> > I had changed the following line in my Config.pm
> >
> > ~>diff -C 0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/aix/Config.pm{,.orig}
> > *** /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/aix/Config.pm Fri Jan 5 12:22:48 2001
> > --- /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/aix/Config.pm.orig Mon Jan 18 14:41:03 1999
> > ***************
> > *** 49 ****
> > ! so='so'
> > --- 49 ----
> > ! so='a'
> >
>
> Norbert,
>
> I talked to Sarathy about this, and he thinks it's the right thing to
> do. But I still will patch Inline to make a special case for AIX, since
> I can't tell every AIX user to go do this before using Inline.
You are completely right. I would do the same in your position. But
should we not force the "perl porters" to correct this problem in the
future releases ? What can we do about that problem ?
> Or can I? Does anybody besides you and Albert actually use AIX and Perl?
> ;)
Sometimes I really feel like a maverick :-) How comes that so less
people are using AIX ? It is a very nice system and I like it !
> PS I said that I'd get a bug-fix release (0.32) out this weekend but it
> didn't happen. I will really try to do this before I leave for the
> German Perl Workshop on Saturday.
Never mind :-) I am really looking forward to meeting you on the
German Perl Workshop next week.
Cheers,
Norbert
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