From lxiao@whu.edu.cn

#!/bin/sh

# This script is designed to provide a handy summary of the configuration
# information being used to build perl. This is especially useful if you
# are requesting help from comp.lang.perl.misc on usenet or via mail.

if test -f config.sh; then TOP=.;
elif test -f ../config.sh; then TOP=..;
elif test -f ../../config.sh; then TOP=../..;
elif test -f ../../../config.sh; then TOP=../../..;
elif test -f ../../../../config.sh; then TOP=../../../..;
else
  echo "Can't find the perl config.sh file produced by Configure"; exit 1
fi
. $TOP/config.sh

# Note that the text lines /^Summary of/ .. /^\s*$/ are copied into Config.pm.

$spitshell <<!GROK!THIS!
Summary of my $package ($baserev patchlevel $PATCHLEVEL subversion $SUBVERSION) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=$osname, osvers=$osvers, archname=$archname
  uname='$myuname'
  hint=$hint, useposix=$useposix, d_sigaction=$d_sigaction
  usethreads=$usethreads useperlio=$useperlio d_sfio=$d_sfio
  Compiler​:
  cc='$cc', optimize='$optimize', gccversion=$gccversion
  cppflags='$cppflags'
  ccflags ='$ccflags'
  stdchar='$stdchar', d_stdstdio=$d_stdstdio, usevfork=$usevfork
  intsize=$intsize, longsize=$longsize, ptrsize=$ptrsize, doublesize=$doublesize
  d_longlong=$d_longlong, longlongsize=$longlongsize, d_longdbl=$d_longdbl, longdblsize=$longdblsize
  alignbytes=$alignbytes, usemymalloc=$usemymalloc, prototype=$prototype
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='$ld', ldflags ='$ldflags'
  libpth=$libpth
  libs=$libs
  libc=$libc, so=$so, useshrplib=$useshrplib, libperl=$libperl
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=$dlsrc, dlext=$dlext, d_dlsymun=$d_dlsymun, ccdlflags='$ccdlflags'
  cccdlflags='$cccdlflags', lddlflags='$lddlflags'

!GROK!THIS!

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 at 11​:30​:47 +0800, XiaoLan wrote​:

     You don't seem to have a proper C preprocessor\.  Using grep

instead.

#!/bin/sh

# This script is designed to provide a handy summary of the configuration
# information being used to build perl. This is especially useful if you
# are requesting help from comp.lang.perl.misc on usenet or via mail.

We need the *output* of running myconfig, not the source code.
The output from your Configure run would be helpful, too.

Make sure that the C compiler you're using is on your path; you don't
say whether you have Sun's compiler or gcc.

Ian