On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri Mar 31 13:29:46 2006, leo wrote:
> >> > That is, our config system is still using perl5 config vars blindly w/o
> >> > further inspection and ignores commandline option at least partially.
> > The ticket may be old, but we still have the same faulty config system.
> Okay, then maybe we need to rename this ticket to something more
> appropriate, to show that this isn't just a Solaris problem.
It isn't just a Solaris problem, but Solaris is probably one of the more
popular platforms where this is appears. (The usual issue is that the
vendor supplies a perl compiled with the vendor's compiler, but an end
user wishes to use gcc.)
How about something like:
"Configure.pl relies too heavily on perl5 ccflags settings."
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
