Re: There's nothing magic about MAKEFILE is there?

[Ken Williams]

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 06:40  PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

I noticed something funny. All over MakeMaker, the contents of
$self->{MAKEFILE} are hardcoded into the Makefile. Why is there no
$(MAKEFILE) macro? Does it mean something special? I see GNU make
considers MAKEFILES special.

Unless someone can think of a reason otherwise, I'm going to add $(MAKEFILE)
and cut out all those $self->{MAKEFILE} hardcodes.

I don't know whether MAKEFILE is special, but in Module::Build::Compat I use THISFILE instead, which shouldn't have any problems.


-Ken