Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I just tried the MSVC build on a system with ActiveState Perl 5.10,
> > and it doesn't work. Some quick debugging before I downgraded to
> > 5.8 showed that this regexp in Project.pm line 262:
> > my $replace_re =
> > qr{^([^:\n\$]+\.c)\s*:\s*(?:%\s*: )?\$(\([^\)]+\))\/(.*)\/[^\/]+$};
> >
> > matches things properly using Perl 5.8 in for example
> > src/bin/initdb/Makefile (matches a total of around 10 Makefiles),
> > but in 5.10 it simply does not match anything...
> >
> > Any perl guru out there who can comment on why? ;-)
> >
> >
>
> Perhaps you would like to comment it using the x format, so that it
> doesn't just look like white noise.
That would be a good idea, no? ;-) I have no idea what you mean with
"using the x format", though, but I agree in general that the
white-noise format is not a good idea...
//Magnus