Remember this post about MakeMaker and perls with spaces in the path name?
http://archive.develooper.com/makemaker@;perl.org/msg00181.html
What version of MakeMaker were you using? I just noticed that somewhere
right around that post this was added to ExtUtils::MM_Win32->find_perl
print "Executing $abs\n" if ($trace >= 2);
(my($safe_abs) = $abs) =~ s{(\s)}{\\$1}g;
$val = `$safe_abs -e "require $ver;" 2>&1`;
ie. whitespace is escaped. At least that's the attempt. It obviously
doesn't work since backwacks mean something completely different on Win32.
I think I've found a solution. I just ran this in a Win98 DOS window:
perl -wle "$prog = qq{\42C:\\Program Files\\Opera\\Opera.exe\42}; `$prog`"
and it worked (it ran the Opera browser). So the solution above should be
to simply put double quotes around the $abs.
print "Executing $abs\n" if ($trace >= 2);
$val = `"$abs" -e "require $ver;" 2>&1`;
Could you try this with your C:\Program Files\perl setup? (Mine's installed
in C:\Perl).
Fortunately, this solution also works in Unix so we may be able to not only
fx your problem but also remove the MM_Win32 version of find_perl.
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