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