Perl 5.8.2 in Rawhide

[Chip Turner]

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).

Chip

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