Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:11:10 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Eriya Akasaka <eakasaka@rodfbs.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Exim stops working in 4.3-STABLE because of Perl problems? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105130907280.3083-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <89456.989676346@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Sat, 12 May 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I've had horrible luck with Perl threads, but I've never lookde into it > seriously. > > By the way, ports are generally supposed to survive an upgrade, as long > as you don't blow away old libraries. However, applications that link > against Perl should, in my opinion, always be rebuilt and linked against > the new Perl libraries after an upgrade. > > For example, I had similar nasties with nvi linked against Perl in an > upgrade from 4.2-STABLE to 5.0-CURRENT recently. > I tried building some of the ports Eriya mentioned (im and inn) on a 4.3-STABLE box with Perl threads enabled, and of course they work fine. Exim's the only port (well, I tried compiling Exim from source as well -- same result) that breaks. Not at all sure that this is because of Perl threads. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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