On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:30AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > After building dynamic binary distribution, we go to the CPAN build > > directory (with huge limit, so it contains all the built modules > > expanded), and create a tiny Makefile.PL in the root: > > use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > WriteMakefile NAME => 'dummy'; > > Running this Makefile.PL with a statically linked perl will create > > static versions of all the distributions in the subdirectories. > > But some of the distributions are broken, and contain no > > Makefile.PL.
> >This confuses a particular branch of MakeMaker (do not know more > >details, but this chunk fixed it ;-). > If there's no Makefile.PL, where did the Makefile come from? I know CPAN.pm > will generate one if none exists, does it have to do with that? Same comment as before applies - I do not remember. :-( Please ignore this chunk too for the time being, and I will try to reconstruct the situation. Thanks, Ilya
