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At 07:25 -0400 9/8/03, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>
>> Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
>> > If I build 21021 with:
>> >
>> > -Accflags=-DNO_HASH_SEED
>> >
>> > I correctly get a Perl 5.8.1 with the same has keys order as 5.8.0,
>> > and which does _not_ listen to the environment variable
>> > PERL_HASH_SEED, but perl -V doesn't say that it has been built with
>> > -DNO_HASH_SEED. Is this intentional, an oversight or a side-effect
>> > of having to use -Accflags?
>>
>> You can always do 'perl -V:ccflags'. That should be there.
>
>Why not just fix up Config.pm and the build a bit to add a new key to the
>configure hash? $Config{has_hash_seed} or something like that, which'll
>mean you don't have to parse the (potentially platform-dependent) C flags.
Hmmm... there is also a run-time component to this check, namely
whether or not PERL_HASH_SEED is set or not. So that would imply
some more magic in the tied %Config hash... ;-(
Liz
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