Re: vendor_perl

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com> writes:

> I notice that OpenBSD 2.6 uses its own ideas of vendor_perl, but doesn't
> exactly call it that.  Part of what they're doing at OpenBSD, BTW, it
> making sure that all the *.ph files are there--without which, standard
> modules like Sys::Syslog and standard functions like syscall(), won't
> work.

We really need to fix Sys::Syslog.  I see that there's now an XS version
on CPAN, which is the right way to do it.  Maybe the author of that
version can be talked into adding the needed backwards compatibility with
the core Sys::Syslog so that we can replace the current version with it?

libc is the only thing that knows how to call syslog() properly on a given
platform, given issues like STREAMS and different log socket locations and
the like.

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

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Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>

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