Re: perl 5.8 questions/comments
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> I meant to ask -- when updating XS module packages for 5.8, should
> they be made to build-dep on that version of perl? That may be
> necessary once they hit the real archive to ensure that autobuilders
> build them against the new version of perl.
(just butting in) I bet the answer is "yes" becuase when you build
-Dusethreads, the #ifdef's in the libperl code cause new slots to be
added to some structs, and thus the resulting libperl is not binary
compatible with one built without -Dusethreads.
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