On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Charles Bailey wrote:
> | 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).
I'm pretty sure mod_perl won't build against 5.6.0 on VMS either, but I
didn't have time to work on it. I'm figuring we'll have a 5.6.0+VMS_PATCH
hot on the heels of 5.6.0's release. I'd start now, but I want to work off
the released codebase.
Dan
