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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Configure: /usr/include
Message-ID: <10064@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 22 Oct 90 17:25:30 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.082228.6230@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Oct22.082228.6230@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
: At release of 4.0, would it be reasonable to make "/usr/include" a variable
: that can be easily changed (e.g.
: 	sh Configure INCLUDE=/usr/local/lib/gcc-include
: or something like that ?)  Some of us prefer to leave the vendor's include
: files alone, but hack the ones we actually use to get the behaviour we want :-)

Might be reasonable.  I'll think about it.  You'll note I've already put
the user's PATH in front of mine, so I'm trying to be obliging.

: While I'm here,  Larry: will you be including the (vast) amount of portability
: wisdom added by the development of perl 3 into a new release of
: metaconfig at any time ?

I'm planning to.  (Hoping to?)

Larry