At 02:53 PM 3/14/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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 :-)
Ah, you mean the metaconfigish thingie for VMS? I wasn't thinking of that
one, though that's in the works (well, on the list) too.
>You seem to be referring to munchconfig though - right?
Yep. The plan was to make it work like the other platforms--unknown $i_*
and $d_* variables get turned to undef under the assumption that they're
not in use.
Dan
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