Re: fresh perlbuild and cygwin-snapshot

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> Charles Wilson schrieb am 2001-09-06, 10:58:
> 
> >Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I tried a second with the latest snapshot (2001-09-04), same result.
> >> I reinstalled 1.3.2 and now it works as before, no idea what is going on.
> >
> >Note that "official" package releases *must* be built only on systems
> >that do not have any snapshots or unreleased versions of dependencies. That
> >is, build your perl against a snapshot if you want, but don't release it to
> >sourceware unless you rebuild against 1.3.2 or 1.3.3. Ditto "unreleased"
> >versions of dependencies like zlib or readline or whatever.
> [...]
> 
> Thanks for the hints.  I hope it will not happen to me.
> 
> I just wanted to try out if there are some obvious differences, but there
> are no differences besides the fact that no functions were found and they
> didn't work for perl like ( time() ) which results in a compiletime error.
> 

Remember, you must also install the headers and libs in the cygwin-inst
for the snapshot when building afresh with a new dll.  You may need to
even rebuild the dependant object libraries, but that isn't always the
case.  Cygwin1.dll remains binary executable backward compatible but not
necessarily binary object backward compatible.

Earnie.

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