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Re: texinfo-6.7.90 tarball contains files that "make distclean" erases


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: texinfo-6.7.90 tarball contains files that "make distclean" erases
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 09:23:26 +0100

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 7:07 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> How would one try to establish that?  Which output files to look at,
> and what to consider when looking at them?

It is the .c files that xsubpp outputs. I want to know if the writers
of xsubpp intended for these .c files to work on other machines or if
it is intended that everyone compiling an XS module should have xsubpp
run on their own machine. Differences could be machine architecture
and versions of Perl.

Much of the Perl API is public and stable and I think it's very likely
that the output of xsubpp wouldn't use anything that was likely to
break, and that the Perl maintainers would try to avoid breaking the
output of xsubpp when making changes that changed the API.



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