On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:00:48PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> MM_Unix.pm has a method called perldepend that hard codes a list of 
> headers for a Makefile section of the same name.  I don't see 
> anything there that allows for the fact that the list should be 
> different for different versions of Perl.

Yes, this is a known problem awaiting a patch.
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=693

The patch can go two ways.  Something intellegent which scans $(PERL_INC)
for .h files and generates the list from that.  Or something dumb which is
basically just a bunch of big lists of header files from 5.5.3 on up.  I'd
prefer the former if it can be done safely.

To make life easier, I can first remove the duplication between the
MM_VMS->perldepend and MM_Unix->perldepend if you can tell me why the MM_VMS
version builds up $(OBJECT) a few headers at a time and comma seperated
rather than all in one chunk and newline seperated as MM_Unix does.


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