ATTN: Perl maintainer - RE: Problem with Perl/Tk and Pixmap

[Reini Urban]

2010/12/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X):
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 20:18 +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>> I hear.
>> Known problem with certain XS modules.
>>
>> With -4 I had to recompile core and all XS modules and apparently some
>> old modules
>> are not binary compatible anymore, although the configuration did not change.
>> Only the environment did change.
>
> Could you clarify?  AFAIK it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild all
> modules for each point release or rebuild of perl.

Of course. I didn't find any such binary API problem in my tests.
I usually test perl for weeks until I release it.

But soon after I released it, we found out that some old XS modules did not work
anymore and had to be recompiled.

I haven't yet found out why exactly. Debugging on cygwin is certainly
difficult compared to linux,
where I do have access to all stack params and symbols in shared libs,
and can reliably
set breakpoints in shared libs. Even if I use gdb-7 it does not work
most of the time.
-- 
Reini Urban
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