in reply to Re: Grokking Compile Error Messages
in thread Grokking Compile Error Messages

As soon as you do colored error messages, you'll get complaints from people on *nix systems that haven't been updated in 15 years about the weird output.

Perhaps make it an option when you compile perl?

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Re^3: Grokking Compile Error Messages
by QM (Parson) on Jul 21, 2004 at 17:28 UTC
    Perhaps make it an option when you compile perl?
    No, because on *nix, the sysadmin then has the unenviable position of annoying half of the people. And if you've ever been the sysadmin for a thousand users, someone will complain that the system wide time is off by 0.03 nanoseconds, never mind that Perl is giving them wonky characters in the error messages.

    Make it an environment option, or a command line option. And make it off by default.

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