[Melbourne-pm] Fwd: [Golly-test] golly with Perl 5.14?

[Tony Smith]

This is way out of my depth but I have a vested interest in helping find the answer.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tom Rokicki <rokicki at gmail.com>
> Date: 23 July 2011 10:53:42 AM AEST
> To: golly test list <golly-test at lists.sourceforge.net>, eric at brouhaha.com
> Subject: Re: [Golly-test] golly with Perl 5.14?
> Reply-To: golly test list <golly-test at lists.sourceforge.net>
> 
> This looks like a problem with Perl 5.14.
> 
> The web page at
> 
>   http://perldoc.perl.org/perlembed.html
> 
> which is the main embedding documentation for Perl 5.14 has this
> *precise* code.
> 
> We could take out that line but that eliminates the ability to dynamically
> load Perl extensions (is my understanding), which we do not want to do.
> 
> We need to locate a Perl expert to comment on this . . .
> 
> -tom
> 
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully compiled golly with Perl 5.14? It works fine in
>> Fedora with Perl 5.12, but Fedora 16 is moving to Perl 5.14, and that
>> breaks the build, due to macros expanding to include PL_thr_key, which
>> is no longer defined.
>> 
>> The build log can be seen at:
>> 
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3222183&name=build.log
>> 
>> The Fedora bug is at:
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717675
>> 
>> I know only enough Perl to be dangerous, and nothing about the innards,
>> so I don't think I can figure out how to deal with this on my own.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Eric
>> 
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Tony Smith
Complex Systems Analyst
Melbourne, Australia
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