>>>>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:38:00 -0600, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>>
>> Of course, this has a different focus on an X11 application, but when
>> Module::Build is run from an X11 app, it might be relevant.
> Yeah, but I'm a little hesitant to rely so strongly on /dev stuff, for
> cross-platform reasons. For instance, I think it's only recent
> versions of OS X that had a /dev filesystem at all, though I can't
> seem to find a reference saying so.
Fair enough.
> I looked at EU::MM and noticed that it too calls eof(STDIN), so does
> it have a similar problem?
I've reviewed MakeMaker and found this spot:
local $|=1;
local $\;
print "$mess $dispdef";
my $ans;
if ($ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} || (!$isa_tty && eof STDIN)) {
This means that MakeMaker does that after it has printed the prompt.
I think this is always OK.
--
andreas
