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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:04:01 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: "Jason R. Mastaler" <jason-dated-88ce477cf68fd550@mastaler.com>
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Subject: Re: building perl 5.6.0 with `-DPERL_POLLUTE'
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* Jason R. Mastaler <jason-dated-88ce477cf68fd550@mastaler.com> [010314 12:43] wrote:
> I've noticed that lots of the perl ports are now broken since the move
> to perl 5.6.0.  Some examples:
> 
> http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-full/p5-Crypt-IDEA-1.01.log
> http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-full/p5-Devel-Peek-0.96.log
> 
> With these two in particular, the problem can be fixed by compiling
> perl with `-DPERL_POLLUTE' to get back the missing preprocessor
> definitions.  Would it be worth it to compile the default 5.x perl in
> this manner?

No.  I'd rather not keep other people's cruft in our system.  It
will eventually go away, and the longer we keep it as a crutch,
the more people are going to be hurt by it when/if it disappears
completely.

Those people need to fix thier modules. :)

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]


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