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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl 3.0 and metaconfig
Summary: try
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.163424.1057@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Feb 90 16:34:24 GMT
References: <2271@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <6935@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <6935@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

>No, the dist/metaconfig you're using is Real Old.  The new one will be
>out one of these weeks/months/years, when I get a chance to make sure it
>still installs itself right.

How about making sure that Configure doesn't follow PATH to execute a
command named "try" ?
I used to have a shell script by that name that executed:
 /usr/lib/uucp/Uutry -r $*
and it wasn't immediately obvious why none of the programs that use
Configure would install.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us