From: Andy Dougherty Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:21:26 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Re: binary compatibility X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14eee2f176c01921f858020562d3814fbbde603c;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: binary compatibility Message-ID: p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16121 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1d27d65..63026ce 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2096,6 +2096,9 @@ approach. =head1 Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5 +Perl 5.8 is not binary compatible with earlier versions of Perl. +In other words, you have to recompile your XS modules. + In general, you can usually safely upgrade from one version of Perl (e.g. 5.004_04) to another similar version (e.g. 5.004_05) without re-compiling all of your add-on extensions. You can also safely leave the old version diff --git a/patchlevel.h b/patchlevel.h index 1138ddb..43f732c 100644 --- a/patchlevel.h +++ b/patchlevel.h @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ to include in @INC. See INSTALL for how this works. */ #define PERL_API_REVISION 5 /* Adjust manually as needed. */ -#define PERL_API_VERSION 5 /* Adjust manually as needed. */ -#define PERL_API_SUBVERSION 0 /* Adjust manually as needed. */ +#define PERL_API_VERSION 7 /* Adjust manually as needed. */ +#define PERL_API_SUBVERSION 3 /* Adjust manually as needed. */ /* XXX Note: The selection of non-default Configure options, such as -Duselonglong may invalidate these settings. Currently, Configure