Re: Change in order of PREREQ_PM and CONFIGURE

Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:20:19 -0800, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> said:
> 
>   > I see the missing piece is that you were using PREREQ_FATAL.  Yes, that did
>   > move in 6.33.  I didn't log why, it was part of some changes to the
>   > PREREQ_FATAL docs and message.  The code move doesn't look like it was
>   > necessary.  I guess I can move it back.
> 
> I moved it in my patch because it was not overridable before. Please
> keep it overridable on the commandline. Or do me the favor to remove
> it completely. It's just plain counter to the principle rule of the
> toolchain: nobody dies, everybody drops metadata where they belong.

I'd love to just shoot it in the head, but backwards compatibility and all
that.  The docs were adjusted to make it really clear to not use it.

I'll put in a test for it's overridability.

On a related note... what's the point of CONFIGURE?  I thought, maybe it could
change things after the MM object has been constructed and initialized, but it
happens before initialization and doesn't even get a copy of the object.  It
seems anything you can do in CONFIGURE you can do before you call WriteMakefile.


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