-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Edward Avis wrote:
>MakeMaker breaks horribly when perl is installed under >C:\Program Files\Perl Not wishing to be melodramatic, but this means that MakeMaker is completely broken for the most popular port to the Win32 platform. Worse, it seems rather hard to fix this. I'm not really a Makefile expert so perhaps I missed some possibilities, but for example with the assignment to PERL_LIB at the top of the makefile, using either single quotes or double quotes will break because they are considered part of the value. Nor does Microsoft's nmake allow you to escape the space character with a backslash (or even with MS's own ^ convention). I found another problem which is that nmake seems to barf with 'syntax error: unexpected colon' whenever a dependency of a target contains a : character. Which is rather surprising given you can't write any absolute path on Windows without using those characters, but perhaps the nmake authors just didn't expect you to use absolute pathnames. Suggestions - apart from reinstalling Perl in a different location? I wonder what ActiveState do. - -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger for PGP key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8imbZIMp73jhGogoRAiJFAJ49RGX5ULtW7/Q1xBAW62aii6zO2wCdE3Tj fMathaY/THMtBbKPdEt8sMw= =EHER -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
