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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: perl 3.0 patch #12
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Date: 2 Mar 90 20:20:42 GMT
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Some notes on upgrading from Perl 3.0.1.3 to 3.0.1.4 on AT&T System
V/386 release 3.2:

 * Patch 2.0.1.5 (88/06/03, PL11) has trouble patching files with
names like 't/op.subst'.  It wanted to look in '.' instead of 't/'
so failed to find the files.  I had to type the names in by hand.
But 't/Makefile.SH' erroneously matched './Makefile.SH' which was
even more dangerous.  (This is the version of Patch on UUNET.  If
Larry uses a newer one, how 'bout releasing it.)

 * Configure was smart and found my /lib/lPW.a, but this caused a symbol
conflict with fatal() which is defined there as well as in util.c.  I
had to remove -lPW from the list of additional libraries to proceed.

 * After that everything proceeded OK.  All tests passed.  The purged
executable (with DEBUGGING enabled) is about 234k versus 200k for
3.0.1.3.  Presumably all good useful new code.  :-)

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