Re: Linux and $^O, $Config{archname}, or ...?

1999-10-21 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Tom Christiansen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Things like *> *>$ cat /etc/*-{release,version} *> *>seem to help. What, if any, is the major difference between Debian, RedHat, etc. except for RedHat becoming the Microsoft of Linux, cutting their margins so low that retail stores don't wis

Re: No updates to 00modlist.long.html?

1999-11-01 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Benjamin Franz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>This is having ripple effect consequences as other things like *>the search.cpan.org seem to rely on the contents of the *>modlist.long - which is becoming seriously out of date. The recent uploads page doesn't rely on that file nor do the queries as

recent upload page on search.cpan.org

1999-11-24 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
http://search.cpan.org/recent is working again for those who noticed its malfunction. e.

Re: solaris 64-bit and gcc

2000-03-01 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Alan Burlison [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: *> *>> Be sure to check for v9 vs. v9a. I can't remember for certain since I *>> don't have access to my SW5.0 sparc today, but in the readme I recall *>> there being significant hardware d

Re: Perl in the News

2000-05-24 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>John L. Allen writes: *>> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1939586.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni *> *>Dick (sorry "David") Hardt is going to have to learn to watch himself *>around reporters. The only paragraphs of "Perl sucks" in that whole *>arti

Re: [ID 20000616.001] Typo on line 390 of .../hints/solaris_2.sh

2000-06-16 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Robin Barker [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>To my eye, you are violently agreeing. No, I was sure it couldn't be quite that obvious, but sometimes the obvious is the most often overlooked. Configure does "$sed 's/^5/2/g'" on the osversion for solaris. I don't even want to know why :) e.

Re: perldirs.pod

2000-08-11 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Simon Cozens [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>B *> *>!GROK!THIS! I would almost guarantee that the combination of these two things would keep most SAs from taking this seriously or running it since it has a script kiddie feel to it. Also, Tom, iirc, the pmtools suite that does much of what an SA

Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL

2001-04-23 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Russ Allbery [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>> Or, is it just to find the word 'license' in the tarball and not bother *>> with evaluating the license? *> *>Right. If that ends up being a problem with a particular module, one can *>always query the author if one cares about the license. The majo

Fwd: perl-5.6.1 packages needs testing on sparc64

2001-05-23 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Anyone who uses netbsd on sparc64 may be interested in testing. e. - Forwarded message from "Johnny C. Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - *>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:09:35 -0400 *>From: "Johnny C. Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PR

[ perl 5.6.1 ] CPAN.pm doc patch

2001-07-03 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Just a slight adjustment to the text to make it a little bit more clear that the $VERSION needs to have the '_' and not just the distribution name itself. e. *** CPAN.pm.origTue Jul 3 14:50:17 2001 --- CPAN.pm Tue Jul 3 14:59:33 2001 *** *** 6061,6074 e

Re: Solaris make depend problem

2001-12-29 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Michael G Schwern [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:22:22PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: *>> $ uname -a *>> SunOS usf-cf-sparc-solaris-3 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 *>> *>> While doing a "sh Configure -des -Dusedevel" of perl@13911 on the *>> above mac