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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!" //MST3K
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