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Re: A plea for more pollution

From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
March 16, 2000 10:28
Subject:
Re: A plea for more pollution
Message ID:
200003161827.KAA21401@maul.ActiveState.com
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:30:40 GMT, "M.J.T. Guy" wrote:
>Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> wrote
>> Could we not simply grep *.[ch] for the names? It'd be a bit slow, I
>> guess, so a DWIS flag might be useful to suppress it.
>
>That's a *much* better idea than mine.    And we already have a DWIS
>flag:  POLLUTE=1 or POLLUTE=0.
>
>I doubt that the speed is a big issue in practice.   And if it is,
>we could follow Tim's idea of just scanning for sv_yes, sv_no, sv_undef
>and na, which would cover the vast majority of cases.

If someone can supply a patch to MakeMaker::WriteMakefile(), I'll see if
I can sneak it past the big burly individuals. :-)


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com



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