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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: compiling perl 4.003 on a Convex, take 2
Keywords: pcc mode
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Date: 21 May 91 17:59:33 GMT
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>
>Our official Convex make doesn't import things from the environment last
>time I checked.  It's cc that believes it.  Hey, if you like that, you can
>use CPPOPTIONS to get a reasonable cpp, and LINTOPTIONS for lint.  It's 
>become a multi-universe nightmare.  (Speaking as a user, not an employee,
>of course.)

I suppose this is another reason that "universes" are bad.

I object to importing things from the environment because it
takes the explicitness away from how to build things.

I guess it's pretty hopeless. From Sun's "man 7 intro"...

Name                Appears on Page     Description

ansic               ansic(7V)            ANSI C  lint library
bsd                 bsd(7)               overview of the Berkeley 4.3 env
posix               posix(7V)            overview of the (POSIX.1) environment
SunOS               sunos(7)             overview of the SunOS Release 4.1 env
svidii              svidii(7V)           overview of the System V environment
svidiii             svidiii(7V)          SVIDIII lint library
xopen               x/open(7V)           overview of the XPG Issue 2  env
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