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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Platform information
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.154053.3471@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:40:53 GMT
- Distribution: comp.lang.perl
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of hdnea@usho92.hou281.chevron.com (David Neal):
- :Quoth Larry Wall:
- :>No, your best bet is probably to run uname -a and try to intuit from there.
- :>You might look at how Configure tries to find hints files.
- :
- :Yes, BUT would it be possible to add such an item?? It would not
- :have to be determined dynamically, after all. A compile time
- :constant that was in the same variable on each platform would be
- :enough: $_!_@#$ or something.
-
- Yes, that would maybe be nice. If we use __ARCH__ then we'll
- be in trouble with byte-compiled code that gets moved around,
- but there's no real precedent for &ARCH either.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)
- --Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
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