On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 12:00:36AM -0500, bulk 88 wrote:
> "dcantrell: some really old distributions have no Makefile.PL, so CPAN.pm
> makes one up. "), at one point in history, Perl 4 or early 5 days, XS
> modules didn't come with any makefile.pl or build.pl. MakeMaker or CPAN
> shell created a default makefile to compile that module, kindda like make can
> compile things without a makefile present using builtin rules.
These days it will also check for a Build.PL before just making stuff up.
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