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Re: perl version error
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at Nexgo dot DE>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:23:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: perl version error
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Am 23.12.2015 um 11:22 schrieb Achim Gratz:
Maybe, although I'd consider it a bug if it's barfing on a minor version
update since there is no binary or API incompatibility among minor
versions (as long as they're built with the same options of course).
Turns out this is indeed a longstanding bug (and one upstream is likely
to continue ignoring) that PAR::Packer uses the version string as a
proxy for ABI compatibility:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=92352
The package is in the hands of Yaakov, so either he's going to provide
an update shortly or you downgrade Perl to 5.22.0 for the moment. If a
new package is made available, I wouldn't mind if the version check was
patched to check the last component for greater-or-equal instead of
equal. Testing for equality makes no sense unless we'd bundle
PAR::Packer with the perl package in Cygwin.
--
Achim.
(on the road :-)
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