On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 12:00:36AM -0500, bulk 88 wrote: > "dcantrell: some really old distributions have no Makefile.PL, so CPAN.pm > makes one up. "), at one point in history, Perl 4 or early 5 days, XS > modules didn't come with any makefile.pl or build.pl. MakeMaker or CPAN > shell created a default makefile to compile that module, kindda like make can > compile things without a makefile present using builtin rules.
These days it will also check for a Build.PL before just making stuff up. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's Razor Stupidity maintained long enough is a form of malice -- Richard Bos's corollary