On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:06:18PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >Maybe MakeMaker should do a check to see that the make program (be it > >nmake or whatever) is in the PATH? And if not, print some message > >about how to get it (for nmake, the above URL). Or simply an 'RTFM' > >message. > > Well as active perl _does_ come with Net::FTP it could take matters into > its own hands ;-)
Look at Module::Install::Win32::check_nmake(). ;) > As yet perl on Win32 (as opposed to perl on Cygwin) is _never_ built > with GNU make. > > We have yet to figure out how to get GNU make to work round Win32's > command line length issues. Is that all? I've got most of that encapsulated pretty well for VMS inside MakeMaker. -- It's Airplane Glue sniffing time!
