Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-5.49_01.tar.gz >http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-5.49_01.tar.gz > >On the outside there's only one really interesting thing: > > Tests are now run with absolute paths to blib/lib and blib/arch. > Basically this means tests can now chdir() and not break. > I have to port this to the non-Unix subclasses.
While you are re-factoring the thing you might like to consider the radical option of teaching it to build things itself or with perl. i.e. once all the inter-dependancies have been determined rather than write out the archane form needed to get a "make" to evaluate them and run some commands, write out perl code to evaluate them and run some commands, or - in the limit an possibly easier - evaluate them and run some commands ;-) We probably cannot get there in one hop - but I wanted to sow the seed. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
