Perl 5.8.2 in Rawhide

David Jee djee at redhat.com
Fri Dec 5 17:44:29 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:05, Chip Turner wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:12 pm, Chip Turner wrote:
> > > Perl 5.8.2 has been built in Rawhide.  It has an initial attempt at
> > > binary compatibility when embedded in previous perl's, but I'd
> > > recompile anything embedding perl "just in case."  Mainly this is
> > > mod_perl, xchat2, and gaim these days, IIRC.
> > 
> > The PostgreSQL PL/Perl module would also need rebuilt, AFAIK.  
> 
> Modules shouldn't need rebuilding; 5.8.2 is backwards compatible from
> a module perspective (and so far, it seems, from an embedded
> perspective, too).

Oh.  Well, I rebuilt it just in case.

-David Jee





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