Bug#174987: current xdvi-pl depends on perl-5.8
From: TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <tsuchiya@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Bug#174987: current xdvi-pl depends on perl-5.8
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 14:46:25 +0900
> >> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:20:17 -0500
> >> ken@digitas.harvard.edu (Ken Shan) said as follows:
>
> >Absolutely! I have some very minor suggestions though:
(snip)
> >Since multiple versions of this script are being sent around, and it is
> >not very big, I am attaching my revised version. The code as well as my
> >suggestions are based only on perl 5.8, though, so it would be great to
> >check with a pre-5.8 perl.
>
> Unfortunately, your revised script does not work with perl-5.6.1 on my
> woody system. It said as follows:
>
> $ perl xdvi sample.dvi.bz2
> Error unlinking file tetex5w5Xc1.dvi using unlink0 at xdvi line 66
>
> I think that perl-5.6.1 could not make any temporary file handles
> under /dev/fd.
If there is no objection, I will apply TSUCHIYA's patch
in the next version (within few days, perhaps).
Best regards, 2003.2.5(Wed)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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