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| author | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2003-11-13 09:22:21 +0000 |
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| committer | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2003-11-13 09:22:21 +0000 |
| commit | 9da7673b7054f9d1835c479b7fbc956d286d5af9 (patch) | |
| tree | d04cf6a128c099feec5807d8fbb3dd9955a90af4 /hints/README.hints | |
| parent | 05106a66598c0f7468245082baf57f74ae89945f (diff) | |
| download | perl-9da7673b7054f9d1835c479b7fbc956d286d5af9.tar.gz | |
Enable hints to create call-back units that can act when
a specific variable is *not* set (like -Uuselargefiles)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21712
Diffstat (limited to 'hints/README.hints')
| -rw-r--r-- | hints/README.hints | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hints/README.hints b/hints/README.hints index 9b49a398bc..f55ded9800 100644 --- a/hints/README.hints +++ b/hints/README.hints @@ -303,6 +303,13 @@ variable in question is defined; however, this may change, so the scheme in hints/solaris_2.sh of checking to see if uselongdouble is defined is a good idea. +=item Call status + +Call-backs are only called always, even if the value for the call-back is +uset: UU/usethreads.cbu is called when Configure is about to deal with +threads. All created call-backs from hints should thus check the status +of the variable, and act upon it. + =item Future status I hope this "call-back" scheme is simple enough to use but powerful |