Configure at the 2017 Perl 5 Core Hackathon
Configure at the Perl 5 Core Hackathon
One major focus of discussion at the Perl 5 Core Hackathon in Amsterdam last month was the status of the program Configure. In this post, we provide a brief introduction to Configure and then discuss the work done on it at the Hackathon and in the subsequent weeks.
What Does Configure Do?
In order to build and install an executable program on a machine, the programmer first has to identify characteristics of that machine: the CP…
kid51 is the IRC handle for James E Keenan, New York City-based Perl aficionado, CPAN contributor (id: JKEENAN), user group organizer and frequent conference speaker