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Re: perl@11523
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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
July 31, 2001 14:25
Subject:
Re: perl@11523
Message ID:
20010731162539.W120@chaos.wustl.edu
> It is not doing it automatically; I asked for it. I guess my point
Well, yes. But I don't want to embed the logic of parsing
perllocal.pod into Configure: that's what I meant by automatic.
> is that there should be a more automated way to populate the new Perl
> with all of the existing site-specific modules. Would you feel more
> inclined if it required
>
> -Dextras=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/perllocal.pod
>
> instead? I am thinking of times when there is not likely to be
> binary compatibility between versions and ALL site modules will need
> to be reinstalled. At the very least, extend -Dextras to support
> pulling the list from a file and let the admin figure out how to fill
> the file.
>
> How about
>
> -Dextrasfile=here_is_my_listing
>
> with the file being a line oriented list of modules which should be
> fetched/installed.
What's wrong with -Dextras=`some command here`? (well, maybe line
length and shell variable size limitations... but one can use bundles
to work around these)
> Plus we provide a script to extract the contents
> of perllocal.pod and let the admin edit it before running Configure.
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