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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
June 17, 2016 13:09
Subject:
Re: perl -V: list build options one per line?
Message ID:
20160617125327.GC3840@iabyn.com
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:22:09PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Currently perl -V produces output like:
> 
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
>   Compile-time options: DEBUGGING HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS
>                         PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                          ...

> 
> which personally I find very hard visually to spot whether a particular
> option is there, particularly due to the mix of ' ' and '_'. I'd like to
> change it to something like:
> 
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
>   Compile-time options:
>     DEBUGGING
>     HAS_TIMES
>     MULTIPLICITY
>     PERLIO_LAYERS
>     PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
>     PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
      ...
> 
> Any opinions?

The discussion came out as 6 in favour of one per line, while 3 wanted
multi-column, multi-space, or full list with +/-. So I've gone with the
one per line.  I've also made this stuff one per line too.

        osname=linux, osvers=4.4.11-200.fc22.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi


8dd2ecb perl -V:  make configuration one per line
0bac45c perl -V:  make 'Compile-time options' one per line



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