The patch included here as a gzipped attachment includes all the
configure.com fixups (and one associated descrip_mms.template change)
posted recently by Charles Lane, Peter Prymmer, and me, plus a few
things I haven't mentioned until now. In summary:
o ccname handling more like Configure (Peter)
o extra.pods handling implemented (Peter)
o allow specifying cf_email (and indirectly perladmin) as a
command-line option (Craig)
o set alignbytes to 16 when using long doubles (Craig)
o wrap version strings in double quotes (Charles)
o change d_sbrkproto to define'd -- possibly dangerous but
necessary for using Perl's malloc() (Charles)
o changed eagain, o_nonblock, and rd_nodata from empty strings to
undef. Though prototypes might exist, these assume a fork() model
that is unlikely to work and certainly hasn't been tested. (Craig)
o make configure.com work in batch mode (Craig)
The one unresolved problem I'm aware of is that alignbytes will not
be written out because munchconfig.c doesn't handle tokens at the end
of a line. The patch is taken against perl@8892 though should apply
cleanly to any recent bleadperl. I'm about to try it against
5.6.1-trial2 and see what happens.
Please post any comments or findings. I'd be especially interested
in hearing that we haven't written DCL that breaks on 5.x systems.
It may not be too late to get this into 5.6.1, but I'm reluctant to
ask that it be applied without wider testing.
%config_descrip_patch.gz
config_descrip_patch.gz
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