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Re: perl5-porters Digest of: get.149897_149898

From:
Steve Hay
Date:
August 14, 2009 18:03
Subject:
Re: perl5-porters Digest of: get.149897_149898
Message ID:
db930dff0908141803i3dc805a4gda7586cb5555321a@mail.gmail.com
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>

> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Steve Hay wrote:
> >
> > Sisyphus wrote on 2009-08-14:
> > > If I change that first condition to something that I know for sure to
> be
> > > untrue (by, eg, rewriting it as .IF "$(WIN64)" == "rubbish") then
> > > archname gets set correctly. From this I deduce that something within
> > > that nested .IF block is not behaving as desired.
> > >
> >
> > Sorry for not paying attention earlier.
> >
> > Does this
> >
> > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/d1cddda
> >
> > fix it?
>
> I don't think so.  The "!=" in a dmake makefile.mk only suppresses
> any error message when you try to override an otherwise immutable
> macro definition.  I'm not sure if this is needed or not, but if
> you want a fix for the archname go into 5.10.1 then you should
> revert your last change.
>

Sorry. Lousy guesswork reverted:

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/e994805



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