perl 3.0 patch #44

Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Wed Jan 16 07:01:22 AEST 1991


In article <4662 at ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet at cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
: >>>>> In message <11029 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (LW) writes:
: 
: LW> 	After patching:
: LW> 		mv config.sh config.sh.old
:                 ^^
: Shouldn't that be cp?

No, the intent was to discard certain wrong values in some people's config.sh.
There's no good mechanism for overriding bad config.sh values currently.
I could make Configure just ignore the default value, but I really only want
Configure to ignore the default value *once*.

Larry



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