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Re: [bruce.stephens@messagingdirect.com: Bug#77616: undefined symbol Perl_no_modify. Presumably needs recompile for perl5.6]



On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:04:28AM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:

> Dirk Eddelbuettel, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >Sorry for bluntly bugging the list -- I don't currently have a system with
> >Perl 5.6.0 so I can't test his claim. Also, I recall Joey's post on how the
> >Pelr built process could be modified to allow 5.6.* to use the 5.0.{5,6}
> >modules. What become of that?
> 
> It's done:
> [...]
> Binary modules compiled under 5.005 can (and do) work under 5.6.

Not all of them, unfortunately.  libdigest-md5-perl, for example (bug #77412).
By dependency, this causes Cricket (the grapher CGI anyway) not to work with
5.6, and I have to switch constantly to use debconf (5.6) and test cricket
(5.005).

-- 
 - mdz



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