Max Maischein wrote: >> ... >> Thanks for all that work. But I look at it and... guh, its so much >> WORK! I >> keep thinking there's got to be a lazier way to handle the problem. > > How about using > > system(LIST)
Alas, need to capture output. > or the list form of backticks instead of interpolating strings to feed > to the shell. What list form of backticks? > That would be safer and saner. Except I seem to remember that > > open "-|", ... > > has problems on Win32, but the problems I encountered might have been > buffering problems. > > I see no way to do clever modification of $^X, because the tests partly > use system(LIST), which works if $^X contains whitespace but fails if > $^X is quoted shell-safe, and use $^X in string interpolation, which > fails if $^X contains whitespace unless $^X is quoted shell-safe. My lament was sort of a general lament not specific to MakeMaker. A "the programmer shouldn't have to be this careful" thing. A version of system(LIST) which captured would go a long way towards helping. -- Whip me, beat me, make my code compatible with VMS!
