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Re: Bug#430249: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390



Hello

Matthias Klose recently wrote about an issue with "long *double" changes
in GCC that maybe makes it necessary to rename some Perl packages.

He proposed that my below quoted questions should be discussed among the
Perl core maintainers:

> > On 2007-06-23 Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > Package: libdbi-perl
> > ...
> > > This package has been indentified as one with header files in
> > > /usr/include matching 'long *double'. Please close this bug report
> > > if it is a false positive, or rename the package accordingly.
> > 
> > The libdbi-perl package has no files in /usr/include. The long double
> > is only in a header file that is hidden deep in /usr/lib/perl5.
> > 
> > Does it make sense to link against /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBI/DBI.so?
> > 
> > Do I really have to rename the pacakge? And if so to libdbi-perl-ldbl or
> > to libdbi-perlldbl?

What do you think?

bye,

-christian-

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