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Re: r436 typemap fun

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alejandro R. Sedeno)
Thu Oct 29 18:04:43 2009

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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:58:21 -0500
From: "Alejandro R. Sedeno" <asedeno@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: dirty-owl-hackers@MIT.EDU
To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
CC: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>, dirty-owl-hackers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61-042.0611061844330.26418@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Sam Hartman wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> "Derrick" == Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
>>
>>    Derrick> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>    >> OK.  This is sort of unfortunate on systems where xsubpp lives
>>    >> in /usr/share and typemap lives in /usr/lib.  Debian is such a
>>    >> system.
>>
>>    Derrick> Hm. Configure test which tries to find
>>    Derrick> $(XSUBPPDIR)/typemap and if it doesn't, doesn't add the
>>    Derrick> argument?
>>
>> Yeah, that would work.
> 
> I'll put it on my list, there are a couple other things I need to do.
> 
> (Solaris curses doesn't include resizeterm() but otherwise works, for
> instance; I need to figure out why I can't load jabber.pl on 10.5 before
> I can actually determine what changes to push, or rebuild perl on my
> crappy solaris 8 box with threads enabled)

I think we can (and probably should) drop threading support. It's just a
few changes to perlwrap.pm, and it'd be safer if it just weren't used.

If you want to test it out, there's just a couple of uses lines in
perlwrap.pm, and a couple of variables marked as shared.

-Alejandro

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