Re: Perl 5.42.1 is now available!

On 2026-03-09 21:03, Johan Vromans wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 19:20:57 +0000, Steve Hay via perl5-porters
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Did it (or does it) work with 5.42.0?
> 
> All versions fail. This is the culprit:
> 
>    First time through, eh?  I have some defaults handy for some systems
>    that need some extra help getting the Configure answers right:
> 
>    ...
> 
>    Which of these apply, if any? [linux]
> 
>    You don't have an ELF gcc.  I will use dld if possible.  If you are
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This may have started in Fedora 42, earlier Fedora versions did not give
> problems:
> 
>    You appear to have ELF support.  I'll try to use it for dynamic loading.
>    If dynamic loading doesn't work, read hints/linux.sh for further information.

These messages are from a part of hints/linux.sh that was removed 10 
years ago: 
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/5c5db62f010163c7c8a00f5b4aab243aacf62342 
"Drop support for Linux a.out"