On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:33:38AM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:00:50 -0500, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
>   > I'm tinkering with MakeMaker and I found these files:
>   > lib/ExtUtils/inst
>   > lib/ExtUtils/typemap
>   > lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
> 
>   > I'm wondering a few things:
> 
>   >     why are they in lib?  Two of them (inst and xsubpp) are programs
>   >     and might better go into utils/
> 
> xsubpp must be found and it better has the correct version for a given perl.
> 
>   >     does anything use inst?  xsubpp gets installed as a utility program
>   >     (ie. /path/to/your/perl/bin/xsubpp) but inst just sits in 
>   >     lib/ExtUtils/.  I can't find anything that refers to it.

Neither can I think or remember where/if it is used, but installing
a program called "inst" to your public executable directories would
probably be a bad idea...

> pass.
> 
> -- 
> andreas

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