>>>>> "Hannah" == Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hannah> Please don't. There're people who use the upgrade FAQ as it's intended Hannah> (i.e. one may try it out, but one is on one's own, if things fail and Hannah> one can't fix it, use binaries to get close to the revision(s) one wants Hannah> to compile, i.e. the release binaries to get to stable, the latest Hannah> snapshot to possibly get to current). And it successfully worked for the past five upgrades. That's why I was surprised when it didn't work *immediately* this time. Now that I know that using source to leap from one release to the next is *less* supported than a binary leap, I understand the risk better. Prior to that, I had equated the risk. So thank you all. I learned, but I also spent the time to learn. By the way, I was thinking through my workaround, and have a hypothesis that binary cross-platform builds may actually be tainted... because that part of the build step must have been looking at *installed* include files, not just in-build-area include files, which is why it more or less "works" now, after the first bootstrap installation. Thus, there may be a bug there. Might deserve some investigation. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
