On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:25:34PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:02:29PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > grumble new constants not added to the list of known MakeMaker
> > constants
>
> I thought I did that in full_setup() or is there more?
I had to add them to attrib_help or whatever that was called
or otherwise each extension build complained about PERL_CORE
being unknown, and while doing that I noticed that neither were
any of the other new constants there.
> > require PERLRUNINST instead of just PERLRUN because otherwise the
> > sdbm subdirectory won't even build
>
> That shouldn't be necessary, its not what they were originally taking.
> SDBM_File builds fine for me. Something else is going on here.
I saw this happening in two different platforms.
One potential "something else" is that I am not building in the
source directory, I'm using a symlink forest.
> > grumble was this change even tested grumble
>
> I built the core and a few external modules with it and ran the test
> suite. I'm working on getting MakeMaker some real tests but its not
> easy.
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