From: Andy Dougherty Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 01:54:38 +0000 (+1200) Subject: Show Configure failure reason even with -s X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9728674739bde9b5cefa9bd69aa235b6068d6a51;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Show Configure failure reason even with -s Subject: [PATCH] Re: Problem during configure of perl5.00402 On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jim Anderson wrote: > Configure is failing and not giving any indication why :-( Any help > appreciated. > Checking your choice of C compiler, libs, and flags for coherency... > You have a BIG problem. Shall I abort Configure [y] > Ok. Stopping Configure. It's not giving any indication why because you're running in silent mode. If you didn't have the '-s', you would have seen the contents of UU/try.msg. Of course, such a failure is certainly 'essential information' of the type that Configure -s certainly ought to put out, so Configure probably ought to have the following patch applied: p5p-msgid: Pine.SUN.3.96.970812141623.14256K-100000@newton.phys --- diff --git a/Configure b/Configure index ceb215c..e1cf655 100755 --- a/Configure +++ b/Configure @@ -3823,7 +3823,7 @@ else fi case "$dflt" in y) - $cat try.msg + $cat try.msg >&4 case "$knowitall" in '') echo "(The supplied flags might be incorrect with this C compiler.)"