On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:37:46AM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> descrip.mms and log of complete build and test cycle attached. Note
> that there are occasional Perl warnings that don't seem to cause test
> failures, such as at 00compile.t #11.
Fixed this (just a hair too late for the alpha). It was because
ExtUtils::Manifest was checking $INC{'ExtUtils/Manifest.pm'} which
falls afoul when we require "extutils/manifest.pm"
> > > 1.) When forcing the extension to build itself with its own libraries,
> >> the paths have to be relative, not absolute. Among other things, that
> >> keeps the Perl command used for one-liners from getting too long.
> >
> >They must be absolute because things chdir around while building and
> >testing.
>
> MM's has always chdir'd around and it's always used relative paths to do so.
There was a reason I used absolute paths, but I can't remember it and
everything seems ok without them so I'll do with your plan.
--
Abandon failing tactics.
