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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> Two compromises that would make sense to me:
>
> 1) Only support a configure flag for the variant where -t/-T is fatal. Keep
> the Perl-internal, undocumented (but obviously named) define so that whoever
> wants to use the silent variant doesn't have to maintain patches against Perl
> or if anything, only patches that are limited to very simple and localized
> changes.
>
> 2) Support two variants in Configure: fatal and warning (no silent variant).
>
> Both compromises are perfectly fine with me.
>
> Does that make sense?
I don't think any explicit Configure support is needed at all. You could
always add extra cflags by calling Confgure with
-Accflags='-DPERL_NO_TAINT' (or whatever the flags are).
To me, that feels like the right level of hoop to have to jump through.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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