I think this logic naturally belongs in the shlibs unit instead of being spread out over all the different hints files. (Currently, in the absence of a specific hint, Configure.pl blindly takes the perl5 %Config value, whether appropriate or not.) The shlibs unit also ought to have a fallback if no hints file is available.
However, I don't see any of this happening any time soon. In the interest of clearing out RT, I've marked this as "rejected". _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
