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I finally managed to test this out and step 4) is not quite right. It should
be as follows:
4) Install Inline-0.44 from CPAN by running:
set perl5opt=-MConfig_m
perl Makefile.PL
dmake test
dmake install
Similarly, when you run an Inline script for the first time the 'perl5opt'
environment variable needs to be set to '-MConfig_m'. After the C code has
been successfully compiled, it doesn't matter whether the perl5opt
environment variable is set or not. Setting that environment variable just
means that *whenever* 'perl' is called, 'perl -MConfig_m' is actually
called - which means that the %Config::Config values from Config_m.pm are
loaded.
There are also times when that environment variable needs to be *unset* -
eg, if you were to build the PAR module from CPAN, I think you would find
that perl5opt needs to be unset, and you would then build PAR by running:
perl -MConfig_m Makefile.PL
dmake test
dmake install
But most of the time it won't make any difference whether perl5opt is set or
not.
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Rob, thanks for all of the insight, it has been a huge help!
