Thanks Zefram. This was the first time I ran into that. It sure is not obvious from any documentation I could find, but it does work. - Regards,
Peter Farr LPI Solutions (416) 436-5977 http://Peter.LPI-Solutions.com On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 19:54 +0000, Zefram wrote: > Peter Farr wrote: > >Everything else has a > >Makefile.PL that produces a Makefile, but DateTime only has a Build.PL. > > This is a new (well, new*er*) installation protocol. With a Makefile.PL > you're accustomed to the sequence > > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install > > With a Build.PL you instead to > > perl Build.PL > ./Build > ./Build test > ./Build install > > The advantage of the new protocol, where Build.PL creates a Perl script > named "Build", is that the process no longer relies on make(1), the > availability and behaviour of which is highly variable. > > -zefram >
