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| author | Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> | 1997-08-12 13:54:38 +1200 |
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| committer | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-09-05 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | 9728674739bde9b5cefa9bd69aa235b6068d6a51 (patch) | |
| tree | cd05a361bd1688c2807ef55d0ebd44f4d5fdbc04 /Configure | |
| parent | dc7231197e99605e2833b259824e9be7fa60fb63 (diff) | |
| download | perl-9728674739bde9b5cefa9bd69aa235b6068d6a51.tar.gz | |
Show Configure failure reason even with -s
Subject: [PATCH] Re: Problem during configure of perl5.00402
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jim Anderson wrote:
> Configure is failing and not giving any indication why :-( Any help
> appreciated.
> Checking your choice of C compiler, libs, and flags for coherency...
> You have a BIG problem. Shall I abort Configure [y]
> Ok. Stopping Configure.
It's not giving any indication why because you're running in silent
mode. If you didn't have the '-s', you would have seen the contents of
UU/try.msg.
Of course, such a failure is certainly 'essential information' of the type
that Configure -s certainly ought to put out, so Configure probably ought
to have the following patch applied:
p5p-msgid: Pine.SUN.3.96.970812141623.14256K-100000@newton.phys
Diffstat (limited to 'Configure')
| -rwxr-xr-x | Configure | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -3823,7 +3823,7 @@ else fi case "$dflt" in y) - $cat try.msg + $cat try.msg >&4 case "$knowitall" in '') echo "(The supplied flags might be incorrect with this C compiler.)" |