Dan Sugalski wrote:

> >Yes without a doubt there are examples of those already.  The algorithm
> >that I currently use to uncover suchlike is:
> >
> >   $ search config.h "$"
> >
> >Although I think that the automatization that Dan has hinted at may do
> >something considerably more perlian :-).
> 
> Not too much so. If an unknown token's surrounded by double-quotes it'll 
> get replaced with the empty string, and unknown tokens that have a # before 
> them'll get replaced with undef. Anything fancier's just too darned much 
> work in C. :)

C??  I was referring to a pumpking helper script (maybe even invoked via
`make dist` in the unix build) that would sniff out all the new stuff
in a Configure script (and/or config.sh and/or config.h) and _maybe_ stuff 
stubs into configure.com or vms/subconfigure.com.  I thought the 
implementation language could be perl (one certainly hopes that before typing 
`make dist` Sarathy has a working copy of perl on hand :-)

You seem to be referring to munchconfig though - right?

Peter Prymmer

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