----- Original Message ----- From: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ____________________________________________ > CPAN::MakeMaker should only be used inside Makefile.PL > Compilation failed in require at makefile.pl line 1. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at makefile.pl line 1. > ____________________________________________ > Ok ... so I have to run 'perl Makefile.PL' instead of 'perl makefile.pl'.(That's the first time that has been an issue for me, btw.) Doing that, it goes ok, but 'nmake' croaks with: makefile(706) : fatal error U1001: syntax error : illegal character '.' in macro Stop. (Got the same error message when I tried to build Digest::MD5 with CPAN::MakeMaker.) Line 706 is: .PHONY = cpurge chelp Here's a bit more context for you: _________________________________________ # --- MakeMaker postamble section: # End. # Well, not quite. CPAN::MakeMaker is adding this: ..PHONY = cpurge chelp # The cpurge target can be used by the author of this module to remove # files added by CPAN::MakeMaker. The files will not be removed from # the MANIFEST. You'll need to do that yourself. ___________________________________________ Can happily report that if I remove the offending '.' from the makefile it builds fine, producing identical files. As regards inline-0.44-release-candidate-1, I built it successfully with CPAN::MakeMaker in both the toplevel Makefile.PL and in the Makefile.PL that's in the 'C' folder. (This meant that there were 2 makefiles from which the '.' had to be deleted.) Guess it might be some nmake-specific-syntax-issue. I'll leave it at that, for now. I've already filled my quota of silly mistakes for one day. Cheers, Rob
