I stumbled onto ext/utils/mkbootstrap and found it does nothing. Probably some file from long ago. ExtUtils::MakeMaker::mkbootstrap() does nothing but print a warning about it being obsolete. It doesn't export it anyway, so the script just pukes with "Can't find &main::mkbootstrap" This deletes the file. --- ext/util/mkbootstrap Mon Jul 31 22:31:42 2000 +++ /dev/null Sun Jul 1 22:55:26 2001 @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -#!../../miniperl -w -I../../lib - -use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; -&mkbootstrap(join(" ",@ARGV)); -exit; --- MANIFEST 2001/07/02 04:23:02 1.1 +++ MANIFEST 2001/07/02 04:23:21 @@ -550,7 +550,6 @@ ext/Time/Piece/README Time::Piece extension ext/Time/Piece/Seconds.pm Time::Piece extension ext/util/make_ext Used by Makefile to execute extension Makefiles -ext/util/mkbootstrap Turns ext/*/*_BS into bootstrap info ext/XS/Typemap/Makefile.PL XS::Typemap extension ext/XS/Typemap/README XS::Typemap extension ext/XS/Typemap/stdio.c XS::Typemap extension -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One How can I stoop so low? Years of practise, that's how. It's been hard going but now I can stoop lower than a pygmy limbo dancer. -- BOFH