On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:24:12 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Michael A Chase
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> No problem. I watch both lists, so I thought I should add some of the
> context Gisle may not be aware of.
>
> For now, you should be able to rename the aliases at the MSDOS prompt and
> they'll keep out of the way of the .exe versions.
>
> I may suggest a patch this weekend for Makefile.PL, but I'm still not sure
> what the right way to detect the need for .pl extensions is. I know some
> of the OSs they'd be useful in, but there may well be more and I'd hate to
> miss them. Perhaps
> File::Spec->can("case_tolerant") ? File::Spec->case_tolerant :
> $^O =~ /^(MSWin32|os2|VMS|epoc|NetWare|dos|cygwin)$/
> would work well enough.
Gisle,
Would you be interested in a patch to Makefile.PL that would automatically
add .pl to the perl executables in case tolerant OSs?
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