Re: [Module::Build] Does ./Build work on Windows?

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> demerphq wrote:
>> On 2/2/06, Randy W. Sims <ml...@th...> wrote:
>>>> BTW, there is one annoying thing about self deletion of  
>>>> the .cmd/.bat
>>>> Build file. When control returns to the shell it raises a warning
>>>> about the batch file unexpected ending. Its not an issue, but it is
>>>> inelegant so figuring out how to make it go away would be nice.
>>> This is the only issue holding me up. I'm going to do some  
>>> experimenting
>>> and research to see if that annoying message can be eliminated  
>>> somehow.
>> Yeah. Its an interesting question. Ill look into it too.
>
> I think this is now solved in CVS thanks to help from folks over on  
> alt.msdos.batch. It should work on all NT variants, hopefully 9x  
> also, but that hasn't been tested-I don't have access to anything  
> that old. Anyone willing to test can grab the latest from cvs or  
> I've got a snapshot at:

Excellent.  Should we change the docs (e.g. synopsis in Build.pm and  
the first recipe in the cookbook) now to recommend doing "Build foo"  
instead of "perl Build foo" on Windows?

  -Ken