perl 5.8.3

[Vivek Khera]

On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Palle Girgensohn wrote:

> I've had a bad experience also, where textproc/p5-XML-Parser does not 
> work when gcc is 2.95.4 (FreeBSD 4-STABLE). Setting CC=gcc33 fixes 
> this, so I guess it is a bit more complicated than the PR:s say (of 
> course, otherwise they would've been committed). What implication do 
> we get if we set USE_GCC=3.x in the perl5.8/Makefile?
>

You mean your Perl fails if built with gcc 2.95.4?  Or just that 
XML-Parser doesn't work unless everything is built with gcc3?  It seems 
that it would be a lot of excess baggage to install gcc3 just to run 
perl.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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