Subject: Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

From: Craig Sanders <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 19:55:57 +1000 (EST)

On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:

> Package: perl
> Version: 5.003-2
> 
> perlconfig (aka h2ph) really wants to make .ph files with Objective C
> headers found under /usr/include... and fails!
> 
> Yves.
> 

it also runs h2ph in the foreground, when there's no good reason why it
shouldn't run in the background and let dselect get on with the rest of
the install process.

Craig

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From: "James A. Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 09:39:31 -0400

> shouldn't run in the background and let dselect get on with the rest of

Some people don't like this (IMO, very sensible) approach.  So there
needs to be options given.  What I'm going to do is write a tiny
script where the package maintainer and give it a command line, and it
will give the user the choice of running it in the foreground, or
running it in the background and putting output in a file.

[Side Note: I wonder if I should use Ada, Agol, Assembler, C, CSH,]
[Cobol, Eifel, Fortran, KSH, Lisp, Perl, Pascal, Python, SH, or]
[Smalltalk to do it?  :-) :-O :-Q :-)]

Jim

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 15:21:33 -0400

> [Smalltalk to do it?  :-) :-O :-Q :-)]

Prolog, definitely!

                                        Brian
                               ( [email-masked] )

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From: [email-masked] (Kai Henningsen)
Date: 04 Aug 1996 12:30:00 +0200

> > [Smalltalk to do it?  :-) :-O :-Q :-)]

Heathen! Forth it must be.

MfG Kai