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Subject: Re: perl5 on -current
In-Reply-To: <199809220919.SAA16313@mail.aslm.rim.or.jp> from "Masafumi [?iso-2022-jp?]" at "Sep 22, 98 06:19:18 pm"
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Masafumi [?iso-2022-jp?] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl/config.SH* have
> several definitions that are specific to Mark's system.  (As far as I
> have found, cf_email, myhostname, myuname, perladmin.)
> 
> I'm not sure if these may cause any actualy problems, but it's a bit
> odd to see Mark's hostname when I do perl -V.
> 
> If this doesn't cause any perl builtin functions to misannounce the
> hostname, then maybe we can leave it alone.  But otherwise, we should
> change the Makefile (or whatever appropriate) to define these
> variables dynamically upon compilation time.

Mark said he has a big cleanup commit coming. Let's wait and see that.
FWIW, the perl5 stuff now builds in aout-to-elf on a 2.2.7 system.

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