Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:20:26AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>> Is creating a script which captures all those -e s out of the question?
>> It is only a matter of time before enhancements or a user with
>> a long $dir is going to overflow command line limit (1024?) on Win32.
>
>Too many of these more-than-one-liners scattered through out MakeMaker
>for that to be pratical.  However, that does give me an idea...
>
>Put all that -e code into a MakeMaker method and then just:
>
>    perl "-MExtUtils::MakeMaker" -e "MM->whatever"
>
>ta da!

Like it. Kind'a like ExtUtils::Command

>This also neatly solves the "which quotes should I use with
>-e" problem which seems to be the reason for the existence of large
>swatches of MM_VMS and MM_Win32.

Yes.

>
>
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>Michael G. Schwern   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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