Answering to John Peacock (Mon, 02 Jun 2003 11:03:28 -0400)
>Hill, Ronald wrote:
>> I was not able to get this to work with the HP make utility
>> However, I installed gmake and it works!!! I was able to
>> install the DateTime-TimeZone-0.17. Where do we document
>> these kinda things?
>
>Rather than document it, is there any way to fix the Makefile to have 32 1k
>lines instead of 1 32k line? Having to require a specific make/gmake is really
>not a good plan. It should be very unusual to require some different helper
>utility like 'gmake' to build an extension to Perl when that resident 'make' can
>build Perl itself.
>
>John
>
I have tried splitting the 32K line into 400 or so 80-char lines ending with
backslash-newline (except the last, of course) and "make" still could not
fork. I think the limit is the *logical* length of the args line,
not the *physical* length.
By the way, I have checked my Cygwin installation. All programs are
late 2000 or early 2001. The perl interpreter was compiled with
the standard 5.6.1 tarball.
I guess the proper answer will be:
- either you upgrade your make program
- or you use the "make -n" woraround.
Jean Forget
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