On Aug 26, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
My lament was sort of a general lament not specific to MakeMaker.
A "the
programmer shouldn't have to be this careful" thing.
A version of system(LIST) which captured would go a long way
towards helping.
I've run into the exact same problem when coding CPANPLUS, and that's
where
IPC::Cmd spawned from. For our purposes (running shell commands cross
platform,
interactively, while capturing both output & exit code), it's worked
pretty
well...
http://search.cpan.org/~kane/IPC-Cmd/lib/IPC/Cmd.pm
For EU::MM, it probably has too many prereqs, but it might still be an
interesting bit of code to look at.
--
Jos Boumans
How do I prove I am not crazy to people who are?
