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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> # New Ticket Created by Ramkumar Ramachandra
> # Please include the string: [perl #117247]
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> # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117247 >
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> Subject: UU/myread, generated by Configure, doesn't seem to work
> To: perlbug@perl.org
> Message-Id: <5.17.10_11030_1363852447@luneth>
> From: artagnon@gmail.com
> Reply-To: artagnon@gmail.com
>
>
> This is a bug report for perl from artagnon@gmail.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.17.10.
>
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> I'm using the latest Perl from Git (git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git).
> When I run configure, this is what happens:
>
> $ ./configure.gnu
> sh Configure -ds -e
[ . . . ]
> Do you really want to continue? [n]
> Okay, bye.
>
> Basically, it doesn't give me a chance to enter anything in the
> prompt. I used -Dusedevel to sidestep this issue, but I don't get any
> further prompts. I've determined that the UU/myread, which is
> generated by Configure, doesn't read a line. Unfortunately, the
> script seems to be unnecessarily complex and messy; so much so that I
> didn't attempt to patch it, and decided to send this bug report
> instead.
If you run Configure, it works as you expect. You did not run Configure;
you ran configure.gnu, which attempts to provide an autoconf-like
configure front-end script. Since autoconf's 'configure' scripts do not
perform interactive prompting, perl's 'configure.gnu' front end doesn't
either.
> Please fix this issue. Bonus points for making UU/myread more
> readable.
I'm not sure how, specifically, to make UU/myread "more readable" without
changing how it works. It's long and complicated in part because it
allows for doing a number of complicated things. The documentation
for UU/myread is available in the metaconfig distribution. Pointers
to that are at the top of Configure.
Meanwhile, I'll close this bug report.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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