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>>>>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:56:43 -0700, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com> said: >> > Could CPAN.pm be enhanced so that, when certain errors are encountered, a >> > retry with POLLUTE=1 is attempted? >> Unfortunately not, because CPAN.pm doesn't watch the messages that >> come out of the make run. > That's hardly difficult to arrange. I've gone back and forth many times over the question if it's a good idea to intercept the three commands perl Makefile.PL, make, and make install. My current thinking is, it is impossible to do it right for perl Makefile.PL because people do the craziest things during this step. I have the impression, they are not doing many crazy things during make, but as I haven't really investigated, I cannot tell. I'm currently leaning towards robustness (i.e. no interception), but I'm open to suggestions. Maybe with the help of an Expect-like module one could play on a safe ground, I don't know. -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next