I'm getting stupid portability problems from ExtUtils::Installed.
Usually just because it doesn't deal with filepath styles that aren't
Unix, concatenating things wrong, etc...

Chasing down those little bugs is eating up too much time.

ExtUtils::Installed is basically a Unix-only module with some hacks on
top to make it sort of portable.  So, if someone wants a little
project, please convert it to use things like File::Spec and
File::Basename to manipulate filepaths instead of clever splits and
substrs.

Particularly fragile is _is_prefix() which tries to guess if the given
filepath is located in the given prefix.  And anything having to touch
File::Find (which doesn't deal with non-Unix filepaths at all).

Be sure to use the version from CVS:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/schwern/cvs login
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/schwern/cvs co ExtUtils-MakeMaker


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