On 2010.8.16 1:08 PM, Joshua ben Jore wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Daniel Pfeiffer <occi...@t-online.de> wrote:
>> From your doc:
>> MAKE ... Defaults to $Config{make}.
>>
>> It should default to not being changed, so as to allow the user to choose
>> which make he wants to use. Essentially you preclude Perl's own
>> makepp.sourceforge.net from building subdirectories configured by MakeMaker
>
> About $Config{gmake} and not $Config{make},
>
> Just FYI, Perl is apparently buggy in that it will set $Config{gmake}
> even when there isn't an appropriate thing there. Tools like EU::MM
> must be able to handle a Perl %Config that lies a little because
> unfortunately, Perl's %Config lies a little.
MakeMaker does not use $Config{gmake}. The Config docs state that
$Config{gmake} is for Configure's use and is not useful afterwards.
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