At 01:46 PM 10/24/2001 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>From: Dan Sugalski [<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > At 11:33 PM 10/23/2001 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > >Configure doesn't really deal with portability to non-Unix
> > >systems either, being a shell script itself. Perl seemed
> > >to just bypass it in favor of pre-generated results.
> >
> > Configure still doesn't, which is part of the problem. Some
> > systems (notably VMS) have a home-grown configure checker
> > which works out fine, but others, like Windows, don't and
> > have to count on static configs. (Last time I looked there
> > were several depending on your compiler, but that might've
> > changed)
> >
> > I'd really like to reduce the amount of platform-specific
> > stuff in the base build/configure of perl 6. Having already
> > done a configure-ish thing for VMS, I think it won't be a
> > huge problem, though rather tedious in spots.
>
>Would CML2 contribute to or detract from the tedium?
It'd certainly detract from the tedium, and that's always a good thing. :)
Whether it'll be useful or not's a separate issue. CML2's more of a "Here
are your options, which do you want" with dependencies, rather than a
feature probe system.
>Anybody know where to get ahold of this ESR guy? He might have some useful
>ideas.
I'll talk with him when I see him in November, if I don't get a chance earlier.
Dan
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