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RE: question about perl -i bug
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:57:31 +0100
- Subject: RE: question about perl -i bug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Gerrit P.
> Haase
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: Ralf Habacker
> Cc: Cygwin-Apps
> Subject: Re: question about perl -i bug
>
>
> Hallo Ralf,
>
> Am 2001-11-28 um 08:47 schriebst du:
>
> > in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-08/msg00045.html I have
> > reported a bug with perl.
>
> > My question is if this bug is fixed ? I have read that gerrit Haase has
> > tried to compile perl. Does he have success ?
>
> In the current version it is the same as before, no inplace editing without
> backup is possible.
But you say, that there is somebody, who can compile and make a distribution of perl.
I'm asking, because I want to look into the source to prepare a patch if nobody else will do
this.
This fix would remove one needed patch for the kde port (6 times in every kde package in
admin/Makefile.common)
Ralf