On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:53:18AM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
> >--- MakeMaker.pm.orig Thu Oct 30 19:49:43 2003
> >+++ MakeMaker.pm Thu Oct 30 19:52:12 2003
> >@@ -381,7 +381,9 @@
> > foreach my $prereq (sort keys %{$self->{PREREQ_PM}}) {
> > # 5.8.0 has a bug with require Foo::Bar alone in an eval, so an
> > # extra statement is a workaround.
> >- eval "require $prereq; 0";
> >+ my $file = "$prereq.pm";
> >+ $file =~ s{::}{/}g;
> >+ eval { require $file; 0 };
>
> I've heard several times that 'eval { require $foo }' has problems with
> older perls, that's why you keep on seeing eval "require $foo".
I've never heard that, unless we're talking about MacPerl but that's
unsupported by MakeMaker.
The reason you keep seeing
eval "require $foo";
is because to do it with an eval block its
my $file = "$foo.pm";
$file =~ s{::}{/}g;
eval { require $foo };
Its unfortunate that require defaults to $_. :(
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