At 5:14 PM -0600 2/15/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Craig Berry wrote: > > > The global PL_osname is set in S_init_predump_symbols in perl.c, which is >> called from S_parse_body when a Perl script is compiled. If you put in >> your own value in start-up code, I'm pretty sure it will get overwritten >> later. You could stick some code in S_init_predump_symbols to check for >> a logical name and reset accordingly. That might be a little dangerous >> since we don't really know what side effects there might be to dynamically >> changing the OS name. > >Apparently the OS name is dynamically set now by a perl script, config.p*, >and I can not find a pre-compiled version of it. So what I think I might >try is modifying that script to change the OS type and see what happens.
That's not dynamic in the sense of being set at run time. Config is hard-wired to return the same value that's in config.h: $ perl -"V:osname" osname='VMS'; config.h has the C macro OSNAME, which is in turn used by S_init_predump_symbols as I mentioned above. Config the Perl module and config.h the C header both get their values from config.sh, which is generated at configuration time by configure.com. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
