On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote: > I think this may be some screwiness in the Config.pm included in RedHat 9, > which IIRC is using a version of Perl from the maintenance branch between > 5.8.0 & 5.8.1, because RH is a bunch of morons who like to create annoying > support problems for us upstream authors.
Whew! I thought *I* was the one who would get flamed for creating annoying support problems for those upstream. :) > Unfortunately, I just realized that the Makefile.PL lies when it says you > can force use of XS with the --xs flag. It actually won't respect that. > Oops. Yes, I noticed this too, but there seemed to be quite a few problems besides just the compiler issue. The Makefile came out very screwy as well, with a lot of missing single quotes, variables without any = signs after them, etc. > Again, this sounds like a Config.pm problem. I downloaded & installed perl 5.8.1, re-installed all pre-requisites and the installation of DateTime went very smoothly. Thanks for the pointer. > Well, if you load _all_ of them it will use up a lot of memory. But my > guess is that in a normal app, if you load them as they're used, you'll > never load more than 5-10 at most. OK, that's good to know. Thanks for the help and the modules Dave, Matt
