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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: perl 3.0 patch #44
Message-ID: <11065@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 15 Jan 91 20:01:22 GMT
References: <11029@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4662@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <4662@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
: >>>>> In message <11029@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (LW) writes:
: 
: LW> 	After patching:
: LW> 		mv config.sh config.sh.old
:                 ^^
: Shouldn't that be cp?

No, the intent was to discard certain wrong values in some people's config.sh.
There's no good mechanism for overriding bad config.sh values currently.
I could make Configure just ignore the default value, but I really only want
Configure to ignore the default value *once*.

Larry