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

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

Hi James,

Thanks for that analysis.  So it doesn't look like a problem on Win32 - 
it should be noted, however, that this kind of situation could still 
(at least theoretically) cause problems on a Unix platform, but I think 
perhaps our efforts will be better directed elsewhere.

  -Ken

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 03:44  PM, James Freeman wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> RE: X:\My Perl\bin\perl.exe
>
> The default install of perl from Active State is X:\Perl so you would 
> have
> to actively change it to something that is basically totally broken 
> when you
> do the install. I did a test install into d:\my perl\bin\perl.exe and 
> there
> is no way with quoting or \ the space to get Perl to run on the command
> line. Anyone who did this would be forced to change it immediately as 
> you
> can't do anything with perl with it installed this way as you simply 
> can't
> shell into the interpreter on the console which is ~99% of the Win32 
> useage.
>
> I don't think this will be a real world problem.
>
> cheers
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Williams [mailto:ke...@ma...]
> Sent: 17 February 2003 21:20
> To: sc...@po...
> Cc: Dave Rolsky; mod...@li...; James
> Freeman
> Subject: Re: [Module-build-general] Cross-platform fixes for
> pass-through Makefile
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 01:17  PM, sc...@po... wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:18:00PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>>>> 	$^X -e unlink -e shift $makefile
>>>
>>>  unlink -e ???
>>
>> He's avoiding using quotes.  You're allowed to have multiple -e's on
>> the
>> command line.  They'll be joined with a space and run as a single
>> program.
>
> Right.  So this is just a more cross-platform way to do
>
> 	$^X -e "unlink shift" $makefile
>
> 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".
>
>   -Ken
>
>
>
>

  -Ken