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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> 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... ;-(
Not necessarily. %Config is for compile-time stuff, so it really ought not
be in there. Besides, adding in tied components to it is somewhat
problematic.
I'd suggest adding in a %^C hash with runtime config settings, but Jarkko
knows where I live... :)
Dan
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