On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:41:16PM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Tim, > > It is by no means a show-stopper, but whenever I build DBI 1.21, it > always copies Changes down to blib/lib/DBI/Changes.pm instead of only > doing it once. The problem may be in the rule at the very bottom of > Makefile.PL which says: > > # make Changes file available as installed pod docs "perldoc DBI::Changes" > config :: $(INST_LIBDIR)' . $dir_sep . '.exists > @$(MKPATH) $(INST_LIBDIR)/DBI > @$(RM_F) $(INST_LIBDIR)/DBI/Changes.pm > $(CP) Changes $(INST_LIBDIR)/DBI/Changes.pm > '; > > I'm not sure about this, though.
Probably. It was a bit of a hack. > There are signs in the generated > Makefile that $(INST_LIBDIR)/.exists should be created by some other > part of the config:: rule, but the .exists doesn't get created by > anything during the build. On the other hand, when I manually create > the .exists file, it does not stop Changes.pm from being copied again. > Maybe it should not be a dependency for 'config' but for some other > target? Probably. > I've got Perl 5.6.1 on Solaris 7 and keep its modules pretty much up to > date. I'll get you more precise version information if you think you > need it. No need. But a patch would be handy :) Is it a 'problem' in any way? Tim.
