On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Ed Avis wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > >nmake and the pure Perl make (its on CPAN) will work. Also dmake. > >GNU make probably won't because the Win32 Makefile is very [dn]make > >specific. > > Maybe a short message > > Generated a Makefile, which should be run with 'nmake' or 'dmake' > or the pure Perl make. > > would help. Users can get confused about what program to run, if they > did not build perl themselves.
I don't think people trying to use GNU make on Windows with MakeMaker is a common problem. This is only the second time I've heard of it. > Or maybe some test at the top of the Makefile which bombs out with an > informative message if it detects you using GNU make when you > shouldn't be. That's more acceptable. Quiet until you do something wrong. Patches welcome. -- Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc subscriptis exiguitas non caperet.
