On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:34:13AM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > >https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=3081 > > > >A little help on this one. I don't have a VC++ compiler and I wouldn't be > >much good at fixing a recursive XS build problem on Windows anyway. > > AFAIK it doesn't work properly on *any* platform. I submitted a patch for > this against 5.6.1, but it got dropped as it broke Tk. DEFINE and INC > don't get propagated ISTR. > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-07/msg00150.html
I don't mean to throw a firebomb here, but Tk is a bit too chummy with MakeMaker to use it as a yardstick for backwards compatibility. I'd be curious as to what changes could be necessary to Tk to make this work again and if it causes problems with any other modules. -- Here's hoping you don't become a robot!
