On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:56:05PM -0500, Ilya Goldberg wrote: > I took me a long time to figure out why new users (with clean installs) > couldn't get anything to work while the developers couldn't reproduce > this behavior on seemingly identical systems (they ran the sub-Makes at > some point). This required me to find out much more than I ever wanted > to know about the inner-workings of MakeMaker. I think it would be > really helpful to others to at least mention this in the documentation > for 'DIR'. I know that would have saved me quite a bit of time.
'make distdir' and then trying to reproduce it there is often useful. I wouldn't feel comfortable documenting how MakeMaker recurses, so if someone who does have experience with that could submit a patch...
