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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Thu Jul 29 07:35:58 2010, greerga wrote:
> > On Mon Apr 19 00:31:03 2010, chorny wrote:
> > > Can someone test this on perl 5.12.0/SunOS 5.8?
> >
> > re: Missing SOCKS library inclusion on SunOS 5.8 build.
> > Perl 5.12.1 does the same: if you use -Dusesocks and don't have a SOCKS
> > library it will fail the miniperl link.
> So, should Configure fail, issue a warning or do something else when,
> lacking a SOCKS library, you choose to configure with -Dusesocks?
Generally, Configure should try to be helpful, but in this case, I don't
see any easy way to have Configure bail out early. (If I knew more about
SOCKS, perhaps I could, but I don't.)
This seems to me to be a fairly rare error and falls more in the the
category of "Don't do that". I'll close the ticket as "WontFix" (or
whatever our closest equivalent is.)
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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