On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:14:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been trying to patch MakeMaker as ships with recent
> maint snapshots to accomodate some of Michael Schwern's
> recent suggestions.  It has been difficult to do since one of
> the problems that arises on VMS is test failures only seen
> under "mmk test".  Along the way I realized that the s/miniperl/perl/
> substitution seems as though it ought to cause trouble
> elsewhere.  Indeed it now appears that on any platform
> it is now not possible to install perl into a path that has
> the substring "miniperl" along it.

I'm going to go out on a limb and call this a low priority bug.
Please post it on rt.cpan.org so it doesn't get lost.

A pretty simple fix is to replace the clumsy s/miniperl/perl/ logic with
a more accurate one using File::Basename to apply it only to the filename.


-- 
Michael G Schwern        [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
I sit on the floor and pick my nose
  and think of dirty things
Of deviant dwarfs who suck their toes
  and elves who drub their dings.
        -- Frito Bugger, "Bored Of The Rings"

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