[Module-build-general] Re: dist dir is just symlinks?!

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

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> Bleah, that sucks!  Whoever wrote EU::Manifest needs to be beaten.
>
> Anyway, Ken, how do you feel about changing line 1414 from
>
>   ExtUtils::Manifest::manicopy($dist_files, $dist_dir, 'best');
>
> to
>
>   ExtUtils::Manifest::manicopy($dist_files, $dist_dir, 'cp');
>
> Otherwise I can't munge stuff in the dist dir, because I'm actually
> munging stuff in the real base dir, which is _really_ annoying.

Here's a good one.  If you set the copying method to 'cp' it changes the
permissions on the copied files to remove write permission.  Just
brilliant, really.  After all, it's inconceivable that anyone might need
to ever alter these files.


Grr....

This I can work around, I guess.


-dave

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