[Devel] Re: perl module on solaris

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Bastian,

ok , so it a corner case as it is a very old perl lib :D.....

But I think both a) and b) just be done. First, the users should know 
what versions was tested for ,and secondly, to cope with the older 
versions - maybe having a #warning if PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END is not 
defined will be better also.

thanks and regards,
bogdan


Bastian Friedrich wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:33, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>  
>
>>I guess the <perl.h> file is correctly located and included.
>>    
>>
>
>Good.
>
>  
>
>>perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts ->
>> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>>-I/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE
>>    
>>
>               ^^^^^
>Whoops. :)
>
>PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END has been defined in the stable branch since Perl 
>5.8.0 (which has been out for almost 4 1/2 years).
>
>Up to this point, I only have checked Perl 5.8.8.
>
>There are at least two options, now:
>a) State in README/docs that 5.8.0 is needed, and that the system has
>   been tested with 5.8.8
>b) Use a
>#ifdef PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END 
>PL_exit_flags |= PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END;
>#else
>PL_exit_flags |= PERL_EXIT_EXPECTED;
>#endif
>   wrapping or sth. similar
>
>Please tell me what option you'd prefer (or just commit that 
>yourself :))
>
>As a side note: Perl 5.8.7 is available as a binary package for Solaris 
>9 from sunfreeware.com:
>ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/9/perl-5.8.7-sol9-sparc-local.gz
>
>Best,
>   Bastian
>
>  
>