Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-27 Thread Tony Cook
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:16:42PM -0700, Buddy Burden wrote: > Well, I'll take your word for it, since I know you're a fellow who _really_ > knows what he's talking about. :-) It's just that this is the _only_ point > of correlation with this particular failure that I've been able to find. > It's

Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-27 Thread Buddy Burden
Tony, From Porting/Glossary in the perl distribution: config_args (Options.U): This variable contains a single string giving the command-line arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within arguments, quotes, and escaped characters are not correctly preserved. To

Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-27 Thread Tony Cook
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:09:05PM -0700, Buddy Burden wrote: Subject: The meaning of config_args >From Porting/Glossary in the perl distribution: config_args (Options.U): This variable contains a single string giving the command-line arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within

Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-27 Thread Buddy Burden
Ron, Reading this msg, none of us has a clue as to the code you've used :-). Well, I'm not actually asking for help solving the actual _problem_ ... I have a pretty good idea what the problem is, and even how to fix it. The problem is, I can't actually _reproduce_ the problem on my machine.

Re: The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-27 Thread Ron Savage
Hi Buddy On 28/03/16 08:09, Buddy Burden wrote: Guys, Okay, trying to track down what's causing a certain quite prolific failure in my initial module upload. Here's what I've been able to determine (I'm pretty confident of almost all these numbers): 92% of reports with an empty config_args[1]

The meaning of `config_args'

2016-03-27 Thread Buddy Burden
Guys, Okay, trying to track down what's causing a certain quite prolific failure in my initial module upload. Here's what I've been able to determine (I'm pretty confident of almost all these numbers): 92% of reports with an empty config_args[1] pass 100% of reports with a *non*-empty config