On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> At 09:00 PM 4/19/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Tim Bishop wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi-
> > >
> > > We used Martin Vorlaender's Crypt::UnixCrypt module for the same reason
> > > you need it - no crypt() on Windows.
> >
> >Nonesense. Read README.win32 before building your perl.
>
> Curiously, the precompiled Win32 ModPerl that perl.apache.org references
> for people to download does not have crypt() compiled in. Yet ActiveState's
> binary distribution of build 522 does. Odd.
>
> Is there a reason that the source distributions default build would be
> different from ActiveState's default build?
It was compiled in the US. ActiveState is a Canadian company so can
distribute crypt(). Someone should probably do a later build of the whole
shebang anyway about now - volunteers? (preferrably from outside the US?)
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