On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 04:23:59PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > severity 310995 wishlist > thanks > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > >On my (32 bit) debian system, "perl -V" includes the following: > > > >use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef > > > >I'd very much like to be able to use the perl native 64 bit integer > >support. I can use it in C/C++, why not in perl? > > > >Please recompile perl with these defines enabled. > > When building the 5.8.0 packages, I attempted to enable -Duse64bitall . > > Unfortunately while this worked fine on the 64bit sparc I was developing > the packages on, test builds on i386 and powerpc both failed (in > different ways). > > While this may have been fixed in subsequent releases of either perl or > the toolchain, I can't enable it now without breaking the ABI (requiring > all XS modules and programs embedding perl to be rebuilt). > > I'll try again the next time the ABI is going to break (probably 5.10.0, > but may be earlier).
Hi Brendan, did you try this with 5.10.0 after all? I suppose it's just a bit too late now... Cheers, -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]