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PPrymmer
Date:
June 14, 2002 10:17
Subject:
RE: another snapshot today (was RE: possible VMS v5.5 fix...)
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OF1BCC5E01.BD3FF344-ON85256BD8.005E43C9@55.25.11

Larry Bohan wrote:

!while we're here, could one of y'all perhaps
!elaborate on the choice of "-Dusedevel" ?


!Is it mostly to step past/skip warnings inre
!"this is a dev kit, beware"?  or ....?


!-ldb





That is precisely why "-Dusedevel" exists


and is relatively un(der) documented.  It is so that


people do not install a test release by accident for


production use.  sh Configure -Dusedevel when


running on Unix/POSIX/any platform that has a sh,


and @Configure "-Dusedevel" on VMS are the


ways to get around it and do a test build.  The logic of


it depends on the evenness of the PERL_VERSION.


For what it is worth I do not put any of these


perl@\d\d\d\d\d.tgz kits into production as a system


PERL_ROOT, although I am looking forward to replacing


5.6.1 with 5.8.0 on final release.


Peter Prymmer
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