On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:37:00PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> The root cause appears to be this:
>
> bin/ip2cc :: bin/ip2cc.PL
> $(PERLRUN) bin/ip2cc.PL bin/ip2cc
>
>
> If I change PERLRUN to PERLRUNINST (like it used to be in 6.17), it works.
>
> If you test this, make sure you don't have it installed, otherwise it picks
> up the installed versions of the files, and it looks like it works.
Yes, that change was deliberate.
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r2332 | schwern | 2005-03-15 01:24:44 -0800 (Tue, 15 Mar 2005) | 4 lines
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: schwern | 2005-03-15 01:24:56 -0800
- Fixed a circular dependency on processed PL files introduced as part
of RT 6460 in 6.25_02.
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There is essentially two mutually contradicting ways it could work.
1) PL files are processed *after* pm_to_blib is run.
If this happens then the .PL file can get at the module being installed.
BUT this means that you can't generate something in lib/ and expect it to
be copied into blib/lib/. ie. You can't generate a .pm file unless you
target blib/lib directly which is undesirable.
2) PL files are processed *before* pm_to_blib is run.
Anything you create will be considered for copying into blib. BUT this
means you cannot rely on having the uninstalled module in your path.
I have opted for #2 as it seems more important and natural to be able to
generate any file and MakeMaker treat it as if it was there all along.
I've made a small clarification to the PL_FILES docs about this.
