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authorTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2022-11-14 11:20:15 +1100
committerTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2022-11-15 14:51:18 +1100
commit52917b368fe204d0670f020d5f0f3ad9ec236e01 (patch)
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configure.gnu forwards extra arguments to Configure
except when it doesn't (the -- arguments) This came up during discussion of #20502, but is not a fix for it.
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@@ -1286,6 +1286,13 @@ options. Try
for a listing.
+Unrecognized arguments with a double dash prefix produce an error.
+
+Any other arguments are passed through to C<Configure>, so you could
+build a threaded perl with:
+
+ CC=gcc ./configure.gnu -Dusethreads
+
(The file is called configure.gnu to avoid problems on systems
that would not distinguish the files "Configure" and "configure".)