Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:29:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Steve has added some more demos to Tk. >> It now fails to build on Win32 as there is a "rather long" command line. > >Recent versions of MakeMaker (ie. 5.8.0 and up) should be smart enough to >break pm_to_blib down into chunks small enough for Win32 or any operating >system to digest. > >What version of MakeMaker generated this Makefile?
# It was generated automatically by MakeMaker version # 6.10_07 (Revision: 1.117) from the contents of That is one from perl-5.8.1-RC? that I had at the time I built the perl there. > >Are those demos getting into pm_to_blib through natural means or through >some Tk hack? I think it is just a perl-only subdir which is pulling them in via the directory-same-name-as-leafname-of-module rule for PM_LIB_DIRS > >What version of Win32 is this? The max length in MakeMaker for Win9X is set >to 2500 but its 31K for anything else. AFAIK (and I am not a Win32 person) the max length is 1024 regardless of version - shows what I know. Where did you get those numbers from? This is WindowsXP Home Edition, with some wonderously self-selected updates it decided it wanted from HQ. >We only really tested that on >Windows 2000 and Win98 so its possible other versions need something shorter. > >Where's a copy of this new version of Tk? On my laptop ;-) There is a snapshot of something a little older at http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/upload/Tk804.025.tar.gz Anyway Steve has fixed the immediate problem by pointing out many of the files in demos are obsolete (he owns that subdir) so he has deleted them and all is well again.
