MM->perl_oneliner() for portable Makefile oneliners

2002-11-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Trying to come up with a way to write cross-platform, shell safe perl one-liners was causing me to lose sleep. So I've given up one trying to write One Unified One Liner and instead took a page from the perl core test suite's t/test.pl run_perl(). There is now a perl_oneliner() method which given

Re: manify pods on VMs (was Re: [PATCH MM 6.05] ppd and hints portability nits)

2002-11-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:38:11AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > At 2:05 AM -0500 11/15/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >I can't find anything in the MMS manual to suggest -- might be special. > >Unless its doing something silly like interpreting it as an Ignore Prefix. > > It turns out - is actua

manify pods on VMs (was Re: [PATCH MM 6.05] ppd and hints portability nits)

2002-11-15 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 2:05 AM -0500 11/15/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: >I can't find anything in the MMS manual to suggest -- might be special. >Unless its doing something silly like interpreting it as an Ignore Prefix. It turns out - is actually an alternate continuation line character to \ (appendix B of the MMS