Re: [Module::Build] Ready for 0.22?

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 1/13/2004 6:32 PM, Ken Williams wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 05:23  PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
>>
>> $(NOOP) is not available. MakeMaker uses a $(NOOP) variable, but it 
>> differs by OS. It would be nice to find a universal noop. I wonder if 
>> '@cd .' or "@cd File::Spec->curdir()" is universal? I know it works on 
>> *nix, Windows, OS/2. I'm not sure about VMS and the like.
> 
> 
> 'cd' always makes me a little edgy.
> 
> Maybe something like this?
> 
>   my $os_type = Module::Build->os_type;
>   my $noop = ($os_type eq 'Windows' ? 'rem' :
>               $os_type eq 'VMS'     ? 'Continue' :
>               'true');
> 
> That's basically what MakeMaker does.
> 
> Or do you mean 'true' isn't even available on some Unix systems?

'true' should always be available on *nix. The above looks safe to me, 
but then I thought '@' was safe.

Randy.