Re: [Module-build-general] Module::Build 0.18_02 FAIL on Windows nmake

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

On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 03:53 AM, Andrew Savige wrote:
> AFAICT, .PHONY is GNU make special, not supported by Microsoft NMAKE.
> May not be supported other makes also. Ditto for .DEFAULT.

Drat.  Well, let's not use it then.

> Alas, that is Lucent NMAKE, no relation to Microsoft NMAKE!
> From http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/MS.html:
> "Microsoft also has a development tool called nmake.
> The Microsoft nmake has no relation to Lucent nmake and the two
> should not be confused. The two tools are not compatible ..."

Drat!  What, there weren't enough letters in the world?  They both had 
to use 'n'??

> I think we need to solve this problem in a lowest common denominator
> way without relying on GNU make extensions. Untested, but I think
> something like the following should work everywhere:
[snip]

I've committed this change to CVS.  Can you access that?  I've just 
written a bunch of tests in t/compat.t to exercise this stuff 
automatically, it would be great if you could run the tests and see 
what happens.

The change log for 1.19 is growing so long!  Over 130 lines!

  -Ken