On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:36:26AM -0500, Mark Leighton Fisher wrote:
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker-6.26 breaks Test::MockDBI-0.61, as 
> Test::MockDBI-0.61 relies on the [undocumented] behavior of passing the 
> target file as the first argument to the script being run which was 
> changed in EU::MM v6.26.

I really don't follow, what target file and what script being run?
Do you mean PL_FILES?

...yep, there's definately a bug there.  Forgot a %s which caused the
target to get left out.  Surprised Perl didn't warn about that.


> IMHO, either:
> a) ExtUtils::MakeMaker should be changed back to passing the target file 
> as the first argument to the script being run, along with documenting 
> this behavior (thereby turning a bug into a feature); or

Yeah, the mechanism was never documented was it.

I'll kick out 6.27 with the fix.  Thanks for the spot.

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