According to Ed Peschko: > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:03:12PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > >According to Ed Peschko: > >> Ok, I could live with that - can PERL5OPTS be set to a default > >> whilst compiling perl itself? > > > >Not at present. But it wouldn't be hard to add -- just look for the > >getenv() call. > > Well, I can hack the code for perl fairly easy, but * UNDERSTATEMENT ALERT * > adding it to the Configure script is the difficult part. * UNDERSTATEMENT ALERT ENDS * > Exactly what magic goes into generating that, anyways? That's a long story, involving Larry's metaconfig package, a list of standard "units" that configure one or more values, another list of perl-specific units, and a lot of handwaving. Or we just hack Configure and config* by hand and clean it up later. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com> "I am the Lemon Zester of Destruction!" //MST3KThread Previous | Thread Next