Re: [Module-build-general] Some improvement to the pass-thru compat Makefile.PL

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Autrijus Tang wrote:

> > Autrijus, what exactly is this checking?  Is it just that the "index"
> > check returns -1 only for certain newer versions of CPAN.pm?
>
> Mmm? CPAN.pm is non-reentrant in general, so we cannot use it if we're
> under CPAN.pm's installation already.  The check is to see that our
> cwd() is not under .cpan/.

I'm pretty sure it is re-entrant, at least the version I'm using.  To test
this I just deleted my local copies of Module/Build.pm and
Module/Build/Compat.pm, as well as Thesaurus.pm.  I then installed
Thesaurus.pm from the CPAN shell.  Thesaurus.pm has a passthrough
Makefile.PL, and it all worked just fine.


-dave

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