Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 21:41:18 -0600 (MDT) From: mbarkah@teton.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: perl5.001 patches needed Message-ID: <9504110341.AA40422@teton.Mines.Colorado.EDU>
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>It's not easy for a user to just rebuild the library, I'm afraid. You >may have to grab the includes, ld, or some such. > >Did anyone make a work-around patch for perl for this? If so, can >s/he contact me? I think we've been receiving enough questions about >perl lately, a port (or at least a package...Brian? :) is in order.... > >Satoshi I built perl 5.001 a couple of days ago on my 2.0-R system... of course I'm not sure what all I did <grin> (*) but it passes all tests with no errors. I started to make a package out of it but haven't tested it yet; or I can send someone a gzip-tar of the entire perl directory with the configuration files and binaries still intact if anyone is interested. Just don't use it for Satan.. =) As I'm sure all of you know Satan v.1.0 opens up a security hole. -Ade Barkah (*) What I think what I did was to force some things to be staticly loaded and things went smoothly. I was surprised that it passed with no errors, but, I'm not complaining.
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