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in thread Artificial perl version dependencies

Huh? 
$ uname -a
Linux lt-gm 2.6.16-8-smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 28 11:00:06 UTC 2006 i686 i686
+ i386 GNU/Linux
$ /home/shmem/comp/perl5.6.1/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.16-8-smp, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux lt-gm 2.6.16-8-smp #1 smp tue mar 28 11:00:06 utc 200
+6 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
...

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It does build. As does perl4.0.1.8 (patch level 36). Another question is whether it's sensible to use it.

What is a 'modern system' for you? I'm running OpenBSD 4, SuSE 10.1.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^3: Artificial perl version dependencies
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 22, 2006 at 09:00 UTC

    I haven't tried; the reasoning I remember for Perl 5.6.2 was because it wouldn't build with a modern GCC, for example.

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      it wouldn't build with a modern GCC
      D:\>perl -V:cc
cc='gcc';

D:\>perl -e "print $]"
5.006002

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      That is, of course, built using the MinGW port of gcc (version 3.2.x, I think). I also had a 5.6.1 built using the same compiler - but it has long been deleted.
      Not sure that 3.2.x qualifies as "modern", ftm ...

      Cheers,
      Rob
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      $ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i586-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --w
+ith-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/s
+hare/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c
+,c++,objc,fortran,java,ada --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-inclu
+de-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.0 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --enable-
+java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --disable-libjava-multilib --with-sli
+bdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --
+enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=
+generic --host=i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)

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      Not modern enough? ;-)

      But yes, gcc is a cranky beast. On some releases things appear to be broken which aren't. And, 5.6.1 didn't build "out of the box", I had to patch DB_File.xs due to a modern Berkeley DB version.

      --shmem 

      _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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Re^3: Artificial perl version dependencies
by grep (Monsignor) on Dec 22, 2006 at 14:18 UTC
    I believe chromatic is speaking about Fedora/Redhat. IIRC They made some non-standard (at the time) changes to gcc, which caused many programs not to compile.

    grep
    1)Gain XP 2)??? 3)Profit

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