Perl portability

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Sep 9 08:04:41 UTC 1999


Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:

> This conflicts with INN's patchlevel.h.  :(

> One fix is to re-order the -I options when compiling perl.c and hope
> that that will cause compilers to grab Perl's first.  Another fix (and a
> slightly cleaner one) would be to rename include/patchlevel.h to
> something like include/innversion.h.

I went ahead and did the reordering since it was easy, and I wanted to
clean up the cc command line for those files that don't need the Perl
include directory anyway, but renaming the version header is probably
still a good idea because include ordering can be fragile.

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


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