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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Merijn Broeren wrote:
> Quoting Andy Dougherty (doughera@lafayette.edu):
> >
> > Yes, and it's already done :-). There's an existing $Config{afs} key
> > that's either 'true' or 'false' that's designed for such tests.
> >
> This is the flag to say that AFS is present on systems where this
> Perl is likely to run.
Ah, that's a tricky distinction, and one which Perl's Configure system is
not well-set-up to handle (and which I didn't pick up at all). I mean the
distiction between the "system where perl is built" and "the system where
perl will run". A very common place that distinction would be relevant is
when perl is supplied by a vendor (e.g. Sun) that is compiled with the
vendor's compiler, but is likely to be installed on systems that only have
gcc. But that's a separate Configure "Todo" item.
> Since I supplied the original incomplete patch, I shall have a look for
> all these kind of tests in the current configure and install scripts and
> then provide a next patch. Which needs to be carefully checked :-)
Thanks!
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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