Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I just tried the MSVC build on a system with ActiveState Perl 5.10,
and
> it doesn't work. Some quick debugging before I downgraded to 5.8
showed
> that this regexp in Project.pm line 262:
> my $replace_re = qr{^([^:\n\$]+\.c)\s*:\s*(?:%\s*:
)?\$(\([^\)]+\))\/(.*)\/[^\
> > Why is this not the default when supported? I am wondering both
from the
> > point of view of the user, and in terms of development direction.
>
> Also it would get more buildfarm coverage if it were default. If it
> breaks something we'll notice earlier.
No we don't, because the buildfar
> > Why is this not the default when supported?
>
> Fear.
>
> Maybe eventually, but right now I think it's too risky.
>
> One point that I already found out the hard way is that sizeof(off_t)
= 8
> does not guarantee the availability of largefile support; there can
also
> be filesystem-level co
