Joshua D. Drake said: > >> So we have three choices as I see it: >> 1) revert the change >> 2) require some minimally recent version of perl >> 3) fix the issue in place >> >> Preferences? >> >> Joshua/Andrew -- do you want to take a shot at making this work on >> perl 5.00503? > > I personally don't have any desire to make this work on a version of > perl that the perl community itself suggests that you should upgrade. > > Perl 5.00503 is RedHat 6.2 genre... That is scary old. > > I believe even RedHat 7.3 came with Perl 5.6 and that is old as well. >
I have my fingers crossed that the patch I sent in with an upgraded ppport.h (which is supposed to handle these issues) will fix the matter. It was simply generated with this command: perl -MDevel::PPPort -e 'Devel::PPPort::WriteFile();' I would like to support as wide a user base as is reasonably possible. If this doesn't work we could restrict support to some version, but that would be a fallback. Certainly, we should not let it get to the stage of compile/link errors. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
