At 2:14 PM -0800 12/5/02, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>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


Actually, that's

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=693

at least when not logged in.

>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.

That's a good question.  The core Makefile for VMS
(vms/descrip_mms.template) scrupulously avoids continuation lines,
but I don't know why.  I will see if I can find anyone on vmsperl who
remembers.


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