Dear Makemaker makers,
I installed ActivePerl under C:\Program Files, but told it it was in
C:\progra~1. The Makefiles generated by Perl 5.16.1’s MakeMaker set XSUBPPDIR
to the directory with spaces. This broke builds in two ways:
1. XSUBPPDEPS has a dependency on XSUBPP, which wrongly gets expanded into two
components, which make obviously cannot build. I do not understand in any case
why it should depend on XSUBPP.
2. When I remove the above, perl fails to run XSUBPP because the path is not
quoted. This looks to me like a straightforward bug – surely it should always
be quoted.
My fixes for these are to change this portion of ExtUtils::MM_Unix -
XSUBPPRUN = \$(PERLRUN) \$(XSUBPP)
XSPROTOARG = $self->{XSPROTOARG}
XSUBPPDEPS = @tmdeps \$(XSUBPP)
to this -
XSUBPPRUN = \$(PERLRUN) "\$(XSUBPP)"
XSPROTOARG = $self->{XSPROTOARG}
XSUBPPDEPS = @tmdeps # \$(XSUBPP)
Now I have got a lot further in building gimp-perl (which is a story for
another day). I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this proposed
change.
Best regards,
Ed
