-n to, really happened. That's kind of weird. Anyways, I
forgot to add the patches directory and a new patch.
Oh, I specified -n now too, hope this doesn't work.
Helmet on!
Flameproof vest?
Deployed, Sir!
Heat resistant carbon-fiber cup?
In place!
All defensive systems armed and ready?
Armed and ready, Sir!
Fine, then. Let's get on with it. Reduce shared library version numbers!
Uh, Sir, with all due respect ...
DO YOU HEAR ME??? REDUCE SHARED LIBRARY VERSION NUMBERS!!!
Reducing shared library version numbers! ... <*whirr click*> Done!
All right, soldier, let's get the hell out of here... Soldier? ... Soldier??
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.
