First, change the port so that it builds a much smaller subset of
the SRC distribution. This eliminates the enormous swap space
requirements of the earlier port, greatly reduces the footprint of
the installed tree, and cuts the size of the package in half.
Second, include many important new patches. Among them is a slightly
modified version of phkmalloc that is thread-safe for Modula-3.
It eradicates some rare and baffling core dumps that cropped up
from time to time in the previous version of the port. The Modula-3
runtime itself is careful to use mutual exclusion around calls to
malloc. But there remained some sneaky backdoor paths into it from
external libraries.
Confession: In the original version of the Modula-3 port, I used
a major version number of 353 for the shared libraries, to correspond
with the SRC version number 3.5.3. That was a dumb move -- I should
have used 1. The current update is incompatible at the shared
library level, requiring me to increment the major version number
to 354, even though this is still based on SRC release 3.5.3. This
is bound to confuse some folks, unfortunately. I weighed a number
of alternatives, such as (a) cheating and going back to 1, and (b)
using a 4-digit major version such as 3531. But in the end I
decided that 354 would be the best solution, even though it's
confusing.
From: wjm@best.com (William J. Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: PATCH: perltrap.pod <- 425traps
Date: 1 Jul 1996 14:49:58 GMT
Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce)
Message-ID: <4r8oim$e5q@nadine.teleport.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: julie.teleport.com
[The rush to 5.003 couldn't integrate this, so here it is]
The following is a patch for perltrap.pod, from 5.003 (also 5.002).
It integrates the latest version of my simple 425traps
document. 425traps demonstrated, with examples, all of the traps
which have been discovered and sent to me, which have bitten
folks making the transition from perl4 to perl5. It also gave
an example for each one, including all of the existing perl4
traps in perltrap.pod.
As always, if you discover something that isn't documented in
one form or another in here, and isn't an official (or at least
reported) bug, drop me a line with it. Also, when or if any
of these is ever formally declared a bug, I'll take it out.
tcl/tk even if they are properly found by LIB_DEPENDS. Make it
only extract in that case.
While I'm here, make expect and expectk link with shared tcl/tk libs.
expectk used to be a 1/2 MB binary! (now it's 136KB)
I'd also rather change `-g' to whatever CFLAGS defined in
/etc/make.conf, but the author of expect has an explicit comment in
the Makefile about him not trusting compilers' optimization. Well,
if you say so.
