----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Linderman" . . > > It seems to me like PAR does a few things in overly complex manners, so > I guess I shouldn't be surprised that its build system is also complex, > but then again, I probably don't fully understand the difficulties that > it is overcoming to work at all.
I have very similar views to (all of) that. One thing I should've pointed out is that (afaik) all of that ActivePerl::Config stuff is there just to enable people to use the MinGW compiler with AS perl. It's something AS introduced with build 815 - so I'm guessing that if you revert to a pre-815 build, you'll find bo problem in building in PAR-0.92. I find no problem building PAR-0.92 on my MinGW-built perl 5.8.8, and on my VC++7.0-built perl 5.8.8. It's only the ActiveState-specific stuff that seems to lead to a spanner in the works. I might take a closer look at the AS-specific problem tonight - though I, too, am hampered by an inability to grasp the finer points (of both PAR's build process, and of the workings of the AS-specific stuff). Cheers, Rob
