On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:53:55PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > I just recently tried to install a module (Test::Harness 2.00) using > bleadperl on VMS and noticed it was using miniperl. bleadperl's > perl_setup.com doesn't define a miniperl symbol, but I had one left > over from 5.005_03 and it was pointing there. So the build choked > when it tried to use the 5.006 only ExtUtils::Installed with a > 5.005_03 miniperl. > > So, there's two things going on here. > > 1) Why is MakeMaker looking for miniperl? > 2) Should perl_setup.com define it? > > I think the answer to #1 is "because it needs it when building the > core". That can be made more elegant by only looking for miniperl if > PERL_CORE is set. I can fix it in ExtUtils::MM_Unix (patch below), > but somebody else is going to have to fix this in MM_VMS:
Thanks, applied. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
