Steve Hay wrote:
However, I'd like to propose that the attached patch gets slipped into
this release too. This patch removes the .SUFFIXES target from the
Makefile generated when using dmake. I'm going to release a new build
of dmake onto CPAN soon, and the latest version now issues a warning
like the following whenever it sees the .SUFFIXES target:
dmake: makefile: line 415: Warning: -- The .SUFFIXES target has no
special meaning and is deprecated.
As you can imagine, that makes quite a mess of various modules' build
and test processes unless we get rid of the needless .SUFFIXES target.
Why are you removing the .SUFFIXES target? Isn't it useful? Won't that break
compatibility (as demonstrated here)?
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diff -ruN ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30_03.orig/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30_03/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
--- ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30_03.orig/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm 2006-09-01
19:42:40.000000000 +0100
+++ ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30_03/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm 2006-09-05
08:54:42.510695400 +0100
@@ -236,9 +236,13 @@
my $make_frag = $self->SUPER::special_targets;
- $make_frag .= <<'MAKE_FRAG' if $self->make eq 'dmake';
+ if ($self->make eq 'dmake') {
+ $make_frag =~ s/^\.SUFFIXES.*\n$//m;
+
+ $make_frag .= <<'MAKE_FRAG'
.USESHELL :
MAKE_FRAG
+ }
return $make_frag;
}
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