# from Patrick LeBoutillier # on Thursday 13 April 2006 05:44 am: >> LIBS => ['-L/tmp/a\\ b\\ c -ljvm'] > >I'll try it and see what gives.
Probably the same thing. >The message actually comes from ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm. My version >is 6.17, but I looked and the same code is there in 6.30. Thanks, my post-perl-mongers debugging skills are apparently nil. foreach $thislib (split ' ', $potential_libs){ Looks like that's the spot and no amount of backslashing will save you from that. Looks like the win32_ext implementation has it right. foreach (Text::ParseWords::quotewords('\s+', 0, $potential_libs)){ --Eric -- "If you only know how to use a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail." --Richard B. Johnson --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------