On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Stas Bekman wrote:

> Randy Kobes wrote:
> > ActiveState just released version 807, which is based on the
> > perl-5.8.1 sources with some 5.8.2 enhancements. The sources
> > they use don't include the hash randomization stuff of
> > 5.8.1/5.8.2 (so that builds using 807 will be binary
> > compatible with pre-807 builds), and they define
> > NO_HASH_SEED in the compile-time flags when building
> > extensions. perl -v reports 5.8.1. My reading of
> > src/modules/perl/(mod_perl|modperl_perl).c is that the
> > MP_NEED_HASH_SEED_FIXUP doesn't need additional logic in
> > this case, but I'm worried I might be missing something?
>
> That's correct. MP_NEED_HASH_SEED_FIXUP is needed only if perl is compiled
> with -DUSE_HASH_SEED or -DUSE_HASH_SEED_EXPLICIT. If there are any problems
> you most likely will see them immediately in the test suite. But I doubt that
> there will be any if -DNO_HASH_SEED is used, since it can't coexist with the
> other two defines.

Thanks, Stas! The tests did run successfully, so all seems
well ...

-- 
best regards,
randy

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