On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:18:16PM +1100, Sisyphus wrote: > Hi, > I've had Inline::CPP-0.25 on my (mandrake) linux box for quite some time ... > not exactly sure when I built it, but it would have been built prior to > 5.8.8 (which I'm now running). > > To my surprise, I find that it's *not* working under perl 5.8.8. Afaik, I've > not updated gcc/g++. Here's what I get when I now try to build > Inline-CPP-0.25:
IIRC 5.8.8 itself shipped with something sufficiently broken in one of the headers such that g++ can't compile perl extensions. I don't think that it was actually noticed until a month or so after the release, and this is only the second time I can remember anyone reporting the problem. The release candidate also had this problem. I can't spot everything, and if almost no-one tests the release candidate (let alone any maint snapshots) then mistakes like this will happen. I'm surprised that Mandriva don't ship a perl tweaked to fix this. Nicholas Clark
