Re: Sys::Syslog stuff

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes:

> I haven't paid attention to this issue in several years, however.
> Perhaps Kurt's work on h2ph has brought us to the point where it's worth
> reconsidering.  (Not so much to support the core distribution, which
> should in principle be changed to not need h2ph, but to support existing
> programs.)

At least as of 5.005, socket.ph (probably the most important of all of
them in terms of core functionality) required some manual edits to get it
working somewhere.  I think it was Linux, but I could be remembering
wrong.  (IIRC, it included another parsed header file which contained
invalid Perl code.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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