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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>,
"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New perl package
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:01:13 +1000
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> I'm currently uploading new source & binary packages for
> perl 5.6.1 to DJ's server.

The files are still in the incoming directory on DJ's server. The reason is
that with Bash 2.05 I want to see if I can build Perl and instead of trying
with an old verison I thought I should use the latest and could't find them
on a simtel mirror.

> Changes wrt the previous package:
>
>   - Linked against libc 2.03+patches, so should nest
>     properly
>   - Configured with all /dev/env/DJDIR-style paths, so
>     install.pl is no longer included in the binary package
>     (and perl now requires a /dev/env-capable setup)
>   - No longer closes stdaux/stdprn
>
> It's linked against gdbm 1.8.0 as well, so the [GNO]DBM
> packages should work.
> It's also linked against libiconv & libcharset, but I
> think perl didn't see iconv(), so that probably has no
> effect.
>
>

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