On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasua...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/12/19 karl williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com>: >> Two things: when I do as above using rsync, I merely get a list of the >> valid perl sources. If I change the :: to a slash, I actually get the >> files. However, .patch contains >> "blead 20081219.17:05:08 b1fccde5a5d6d9eece3886ce5cb9dc7b9027bee2" >> which doesn't compile well. > > What is exactly the problem with that ? I don't think anything relies > on .patch being an integer, but I might be wrong.
Having spaces in what's appended to DEVEL in patchlevel.h will probably cause trouble. run/switches.t will fail because the new string will not match DEVEL\d+ in the output of perl -v. You can see what you're getting for the relevant variables with: % grep _patchlevel config.sh
