Re: perl5 won't build (was Re: python dumps core on current-users)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:44:54 +0200
Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:18:53PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:17:32 +0200
> > dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:58:48 +0000
> > > "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Interesting; thanks.  Sounds like something to be fixed with a
> > > > patch
> > > 
> > > Yes. I was going to send a pr, but hadn't come around to upgrade
> > > my system to -current enough.
> > > 
> > > > file for now and then to be fed upstream.
> > > 
> > > It's already fixed in perl 5.10.0, so that's probably not needed.
> > > 
> > I'd better send-pr, since lang/perl5 is only up to 5.8.8...
> 
> I committed a fix for this.
> Thanks, dieter, for the pointer!

It builds now; thank you all.  (But from reading current-users, I think
I'm going to wait a couple of days before upgrading my production
laptop; it doesn't look that stable right now...)

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb