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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
August 31, 2011 04:15
Subject:
Re: generating win32/config_H.*
Message ID:
20110831131459.74cec18d@pc09.procura.nl
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:32:03 +0100, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
wrote:

> The revision log for the files various Win32 "canned config files"
> win32/config_H.* suggest that they are updated manually and sporadically.
> 
> As best I can tell each is generated from a corresponding config file
> using win32/config_h.PL, and I assume ideally is supposed to be in sync.
> 
> win32/config_h.PL is actually portable. Would it make sense to do the
> regeneration as part of regen.pl, and (therefore) keep all the canned
> headers up to date automatically?

I manually change these based on Porting/checkcfgvar.pl

will that be pointless too than?
/me silently hopes so

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