On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:44:08AM +0000, Sisyphus wrote: > In version 5.45 MM_Win32 has the same as MM_Win95 (except no mention of > $DMAKE). So, somewhere between then and now .... > > What's *really* disappointing is that the same fix won't work with > 'dmake' - starting to look like a 'dmake' deficiency. I tried the > MM_Win95 form (minus the 'if $DMAKE' conditional) and that doesn't do > anything for 'dmake' either.
That may explain the split. Since Makefile.PL can't really know what make you're trying to use I think the assumption has been made that Win9x is going to be using nmake and everything else maybe dmake maybe not. Its not a very good assumption but it does account for the anomaly.
