Re: Proposal to remove support for MachTen

On 12 Feb 2004, at 20:13, Dominic Dunlop wrote:
>>> 2. Make hints/machten.sh exit with a warning for any perl
>>>    higher than 5.8.x. This exit will have the same effect as
>>>    you intended with the change to Configure: it won't build
>>
>> Or maybe don't even bother, though certainly remove or reword
>> Dominic's promise to help fix any problems!
>
> Again OK.

Umm, this may be a dumb question, but how can I tell in a hints file 
what version of perl is being built? Looking at the shell variables 
that are defined when the file is sourced, I can see nothing with the 
version number in it, except tmppwd -- and it's only there because of 
what I happened to call the top-level directory. Should I parse what I 
need out of patchlevel.h?

Thanks.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop