On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:41:19PM -0400, James Keenan wrote: > I am trying to determine the purpose of a certain block of code in > Configure.pl. In the most recent version in trunk, we find: > ... > My questions are: > > 1. If you've already configured, why would you want to add another > step before calling 'make'? > > 2. Does anybody actually use Configure.pl in this way, and to what > purpose?
I can't speak for others, but I use this frequently with "Configure.pl --step=gen::languages". This allows regeneration of the per-language makefiles (e.g., languages/perl6/Makefile) without having to go through the entire configure/rebuild process for all of Parrot. Pm
