RE: [perl #17786] Perl 5.8.0 h2xs test 95 fails when locincpth is undefined

Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2002, Joel Shprentz wrote:

> > Arusha, my system management tool of choice,
> > deliberately undefined Locincpth by running perl's configure script
> > with the "-Aundef:locincpth=" parameter.

> ... -Aundef:locincpth= is not working correctly.  It's supposed to set
> locincpth='', but instead, it's setting locincpth=undef.  This is a
> Configure bug.  (Oddly, if you use the simpler -Ulocincpth= Configure
> command line option, you do get the right value.  ...)

> In any case, I think h2xs does ok with locincpth=''.  It's the value of
> undef that causes problems.

I replaced "-Aundef:locincpth=" with "-Ulocincpth=" in Arusha's
sidai/package/perl.xml configuration file and used Arusha to rebuild Perl
from scratch.  All tests pass including h2xs test 95.

Thanks for your help.


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