Re: [Module-build-general] Cross-platform fixes for pass-through Makefile

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:20:27PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
> Right.  So this is just a more cross-platform way to do
> 
> 	$^X -e "unlink shift" $makefile

Double quotes are surprsingly cross platform.  Just have to watch out
for Unix interpolation.


> The only part of it that's still an issue, I think, is the $^X 
> variable.  It might contain something like "/My Computer/foo/bar/perl", 
> in which case I guess the shell invocation would think the command was 
> "/My" with argument "Computer/foo/bar/perl".

Heh.  Good luck.  I gave up on that.  nmake is particularly frustrating
and brain dead about having any sane quoting rules for it.

My attempt at a cross-platform perl one-liner generating tool is:
ExtUtils::MM_Any->oneliner in 6.06_02.  I mostly gave up on trying
to deal with paths to perl with spaces in it.