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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: perl 3.0 patch #44
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.075348.25058@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 17 Jan 91 07:53:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: robobar.1991Jan17.075348.25058
References: <11029@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4662@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <11065@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

> In article <4662@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:

> 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*.

Why not write the patchlevel out into config.sh ?
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