On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:54:00AM -0500, B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote:
> You have recently (6.01, I think?) broken MakeMaker for Cygwin.
Does it smoke, explode or spark? Does it rearrange your furniture in the
middle of the night? :) What's broken?
> The fix is trivial. In MM_Cygwin.pm:
>
> sub perl_archive {
> if ($Config{useshrplib} eq 'true') {
> my $libperl = '$(PERL_INC)' .'/'. "$Config{libperl}";
> #$libperl =~ s/a$/dll.a/; # THIS IS THE BROKEN LINE
> $libperl =~ s/a$/dll/; # THIS IS THE FIXED LINE
> return $libperl;
> } else {
> return '$(PERL_INC)' .'/'. ("$Config{libperl}" or "libperl.a");
> }
> }
>
> The problem shows up building modules needing compilation.
That code was added in bleadperl@14453 about three months ago as part of
MakeMaker 5.50_01 by Gerrit. I've CC'd him. Gerrit?
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?filename=lib%2FExtUtils%2FMM_Cygwin.pm&action=patch&patch=14453&.submit=&.cgifields=action
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