Re: Fix for Perl 5.14

On 04/23/2011 03:02 AM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> Perl 5.14.0-RC1 came out a few days ago...
>
> There is a minor compile time error due to the API changing a bit:
> plperl.c:929:3: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment
>
> This is due to GvCV() no longer returning an lvalue, instead they want
> us to use the new GvCV_set macro. (see
> http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.14.0-RC1/pod/perldelta.pod#GvCV()_and_GvGP()_are_no_longer_lvalues)
>
> Unfortunately  that macro is not available on older perls so the
> attached provides our own macro when GvCV_set is not defined.
>
> Tested with 5.14.0-rc1 and 5.12.3.
>
> The -head patch applies with fuzz to 9.0. The 8.4 patch applies clean
> to 8.4 and with fuzz to 8.3 and 8.2.


How nice of them not to fix it in ppport.h. I thought this is exactly 
the sort of thing it's for.

This looks OK, but I think we need to wait until they remove the RC tag.

cheers

andrew