2. Make hints/machten.sh exit with a warning for any perl higher than 5.8.x. This exit will have the same effect as you intended with the change to Configure: it won't build
Or maybe don't even bother, though certainly remove or reword Dominic's promise to help fix any problems!
Again OK.
Umm, this may be a dumb question, but how can I tell in a hints file what version of perl is being built? Looking at the shell variables that are defined when the file is sourced, I can see nothing with the version number in it, except tmppwd -- and it's only there because of what I happened to call the top-level directory. Should I parse what I need out of patchlevel.h?
Thanks. -- Dominic Dunlop
