This is my third post on the subject (I'm sure they're getting through as I
see them in the archives :-).

Can any developers please comment on the problem below?

I see that a release is on the horizon, but this issue has still not been
addressed.  Please, either fix or document.

I have filed a bug on rt: 11536

mrc

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:59:54AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> It looks like, starting with 6.25_01, the makefile fragment for PL_FILES
> has changed.  It is no longer passing the target as an option the to
> PERLRUNINST call.  Is this intentional?  I didn't see any mention of this
> in the Changes file.
> 
> MP3-Tag-0.94 is the current package I'm noticing this with.  I also came
> across it with another package, but I forgot the name already.
> 
> Anyway, with 6.25 installed, the pertinent lines from the Makefile are:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:42am]src/MP3-Tag/MP3-Tag-0.94(581) perl Makefile.PL ; grep 
> data_pod.PL Makefile
> Writing Makefile for MP3::Tag
> #     PL_FILES => { data_pod.PL=>q[ID3v2-Data.pod] }
> ID3v2-Data.pod :: data_pod.PL
>         $(PERLRUNINST) data_pod.PL ID3v2-Data.pod
> 
> And with 6.25_01 and 6.25_05 I see:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:55am]src/MP3-Tag/MP3-Tag-0.94(582) perl Makefile.PL ; grep 
> data_pod.PL Makefile
> Writing Makefile for MP3::Tag
> #     PL_FILES => { data_pod.PL=>q[ID3v2-Data.pod] }
> ID3v2-Data.pod :: data_pod.PL
>         $(PERLRUNINST) data_pod.PL
> 
> I'm not sure if this was an intentional thing or not.  At first I thought
> it was, in keeping with this part of the docs:
> 
> ``The *.PL files are expected to produce output to the target files
> themselves.''
> 
> But now I'm not sure.
> 
> Thoughts?
> mrc
> -- 
>      Mike Castle      [EMAIL PROTECTED]      www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
>     We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.  -- Watchmen
> fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

-- 
     Mike Castle      [EMAIL PROTECTED]      www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
    We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.  -- Watchmen
fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc

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