Ok, lemme see what I'm up to on integrating all this. Try the latest snapshot.
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > 1.) MakeMaker.pm : check_hints() > > There were two places where catdir was used but catfile was meant. On > systems where file syntax and directory syntax are indistinguishable > that might not matter, but on VMS it generates garbage and was causing > hints.t to fail. This was applied yesterday or so. > 2.) MM_Unix.pm : ppd() > > There were several problems here. > > a.) The make directive '@' in front of commands passed to the shell did > not have a space after it, leaving ambiguity about whether or not it was > part of the shell command. I've added the space and replaced it with the > more portable $(NOECHO) macro. Fixed that. > b.) The attribute values printed to the ppd file are surrounded with > double quotes per XML requirements, but there is no portable way to > escape double quotes inside of double-quoted strings that works on all > shells. I've replaced the occurrences of C<\"> with C<\x22> and added a > comment that I hope mitigates the obfuscation. I figured out a portable way to escape double quotes inside double-quoted strings. There's now a perl_oneliner() method which generates a safe one-liner for the current OS. The Unix one works. The VMS and Win32 ones should work... > c.) All of the dependencies were being printed with one command, which > more often than not exceeds DCL's very limited command buffer, and with > a lot of dependencies could conceivably overflow even more generous > command buffers. I split this up to print each dependency with a > separate command. I'll address this once I figure out the whole command line length problem. > N.B. I just happened to stumble on the ppd problems. There should > probably be a "make ppd" added to one of the tests, but which one? Been added to basic.t. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One I'll tell you what beats voodoo every time, a big ass knife. -- "Overkill" Battlebot driver
