| On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
|
| > At 03:49 AM 3/15/00 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
| > >Without these patches. RC2 won't build properly, install, or build modules.
| >
| > I have a feeling that the configure.com patch for default file types will
| > fix Peter's issue with Perl_cando and lib$fid_to_name, although it may
| > simply be avoiding it rather than fixing what may still be a latent problem.
|
| I have absolutely *no* doubt about that. There's a bug in there, and it
| needs squashing. I left it be because Sarathy was pushing hard for a
| release. Turns out there's a nasty bug in the parser that'll throw perl
| into an infinite loop which needs fixing, but I'd still just as soon leave
| this be until release. (I want a working 5.6.0 *out*, darn it! :)
I agree with this, but I'd also like to find out all we can about any
bugs in the ALWAYS_DEFTYPES code; I'd hate for it to become a Frequently
Asked Bugfix, since I dunno when 5.6.1'll be out (though I hope .1 releases
will follow hard on .0 releases in general).
Regards,
Charles Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
