In reference to the recent mail about Perl 5.8.0. This is specific to the Linux Distribution (Debian) that I use but it explains why version 5.8.0 is not drop in compatible with athena and artemis. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 Carlo.Segre@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:18:29 +1000 From: Brendan O'Dea To: "debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org" Cc: Debian Perl List Subject: Perl 5.8.0 packages Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:20:14 -0500 Resent-From: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org Perl 5.8.0 packages are currently being tested in a staging area: deb http://auric.debian.org/~bod perl/$(ARCH)/ deb-src http://auric.debian.org/~bod perl/ the principal reason for a staging area is that these packages are not binary compatible with the previous perl packages, which means that all binary (XS) modules and programs embedding a perl interpreter will need to be rebuilt. The complete list of packages which will require a rebuild may be obtained by running: apt-cache showpkg perlapi-5.6.0 perlapi-5.6.1 libperl5.6 In addition, since the perl 5.8.0 packages break binary compatibility I've chosen to enable ithreads which may affect some of the packages listed above--notably if packages embedding an interpreter declare their own xs_init subroutine rather than generating one with ExtUtils::Embed::xsinit may need to add a pTHR argument to that function.