Strong 2.2 and 2.1.x candidate. Someone should review the patch before,
however.
The maintainer of the Perl5 port should probably introduce a similar patch
there.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
peeking inside of Chris Torek's stdio library internals. This is
similar to the code used for other systems, but didn't work on CT's new
implementation.
Submitted by: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
. rename the function to main'gethostname, so it can be called unqualified,
. strip the trailing \0 character, closes PR # bin/1084,
. a better way to express an insane long string.
Submitted by: Giles Lean <giles@topaz.nemeton.com.au> (except the 1st)
interpret it. I've preserved the bugs that perl must be installed
to build part of perl and that it must be installed in the wrong place
(no ${DESTDIR}).
i reported today earlier..tested and works OK..
( To those who want to experience bug try running aub
with old version of socket.ph and with new one or just any
perl script "requiring " <sys/socket.ph> or <sys/cdefs.ph> )
perl setuid scripts don't work in 2.1-current for the same reason they were
not working in 1.1.5.1.
Perl 5 has the same "problem" of course.
We have almost POSIX saved uids but we must undefine the following symbols
in order to get setuid perl scripts :
Submitted by: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
in getting mirror-2.3 to work with FreeBSD, i found that timelocal.pl has
a bug. a patch is included below. this needs to be applied to both
src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/timelocal.pl and
src/usr.sbin/xntpd/scripts/monitoring/timelocal.pl
Submitted by: jmb
Perl's scripts are still trying to execute perl out of /usr/gnu/bin/perl.
The hack Larry was using for h2ph.1 doesn't work with the new macros, so
make it a real man page.
Also, we weren't building the .ph files, add them as an afterinstall rule
in the x2p subdirectory.
and /usr/share/perl (library). The latter was chosen as analogous to other
directories already present in /usr/share, like /usr/share/groff_font and
(particularly) /usr/share/mk.