Re: [gentoo-dev] Pre-emptive apology for perl snafu this afternoon

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:44 -0500, Michael Cummings wrote:
>  One of the first things in this particular module is to
> check that the kernel and platform hardcoded in it at perl build time
> match what was used during the original install of your current perl
> according to Config.pm. No problem - unless you've changed kernel
> versions. Because during the make process the file is sourced by perl,
> and during that sourcing (ok, not the right word, but I'm talking to
> you, the masses) it attempted to require, or pull in, the Errno.pm, and
> failing to find a new one in the unpacked source, it pulled the one on
> the main system. And therein began the mess. Two values that would
> normally never appear to perl to be out of sync were suddenly horribly
> wrong on any box that had had a kernel upgrade since the last perl
> install.
>

Just hax0r the stupid beast not to use the kernel version, but only
<arch>-<os> - cant see what the kernel version has to do with it, except
maybe if it calculate it from /usr/include/linux/*, but running kernel
is just silly.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa