Re: [Module-build-general] patch for cygwin

[Steve P. <sp...@qu...>]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 07:06  am, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes  
wrote:

> Couldn't install Module::Build...the manpage names contain colons.
> Patch below fixes it.  Looking at MakeMaker, I see MM_UWIN and MM_OS2
> ($^O eq 'uwin' and 'os2', respectively) also use '.', but have no
> special code in Module::Build.  MakeMaker uses '__' for DOS,
> Module::Build uses '.' (via Platform/Windows.pm).

Might make sense to use '__' for cygwin then, to preserve MM  
compatibility.  I didn't see a Module::Build subclass for the others  
you've mentioned, so I left them out of the original patch[1].

Perhaps stubs for them should be created too?

-Steve
[1] see  
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/ 
forum.php?thread_id=2800835&forum_id=10905