"Craig A. Berry" wrote: > > 99% of the time, MakeMaker creates a Makefile that has the > C<top_targets> section (and thus the C<all> target) first, which is > why this doesn't come up very often. But if an extension does > something that creates a dependency in an earlier section, we're > hosed. This has always happened with DBI, which uses the > C<post_constants> section to add several dependencies (as well as a > few constants).
As another data point for you, I have always had luck building DBI by typing "mmk test" directly after "perl Makefile.PL" and not had any dependency issues. HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747
