[Fink-devel] Status of perl5.8.6 on 10.6

2010-07-19 Thread Daniel E. Macks
According to the Packaging Manual on Distribution support: perl 5.8.6: 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 which matches what I remember from previous discussions of deprecating old langversions. We don't support 10.3 in this tree and 10.4's system-perl is 5.8.6, but our perl586 package in current unstable is:

Re: [Fink-devel] perl inconsistency

2010-07-19 Thread Jean-François Mertens
PS: One can surmise the problem lies in the Mac-specific parts of the script (l.127-177 and 541-583), else the problem would already have been noticed on other platforms.. JF -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint Wh

[Fink-devel] perl inconsistency

2010-07-19 Thread Jean-François Mertens
Output of a perl script in the hc pkg is right (ie, in accord with the intent of the script) with some versions of perl and not with others _ including that fink's and Apple's 5.8.8 differ. The attachment contains the perl-script, the input file (a short excerpt of a compiler temp file in