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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:49:33PM -0500, PPrymmer@factset.com wrote: > I am trying to imagine what utility there is in having > a dependence on /unix/path/to/xsubpp inside the Makefile. > Perhaps if you were hacking on xsubpp it might be helpful, but > even if you were doing that I'd argue that your time would be > better spent starting off running the > > perl Makefile.PL > > command and not relying on a dependence upon xsubpp to trigger > your module/extension rebuilds for you. I could be missing > something here though (???). Its probably exactly that, someone was doing some xsubpp hacking in the core and wanted things to neatly rebuild on each edit. I don't see the harm in it and it makes some sense for core development. > -XSUBPPDEPS = @tmdeps \$(XSUBPP) > +XSUBPPDEPS = @tmdeps Was it really necessary to remove it dependency to get it to work? -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Put a big enough engine on it and even a brick will fly.Thread Previous | Thread Next