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On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:53:55PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I just recently tried to install a module (Test::Harness 2.00) using
> bleadperl on VMS and noticed it was using miniperl. bleadperl's
> perl_setup.com doesn't define a miniperl symbol, but I had one left
> over from 5.005_03 and it was pointing there. So the build choked
> when it tried to use the 5.006 only ExtUtils::Installed with a
> 5.005_03 miniperl.
>
> So, there's two things going on here.
>
> 1) Why is MakeMaker looking for miniperl?
> 2) Should perl_setup.com define it?
>
> I think the answer to #1 is "because it needs it when building the
> core". That can be made more elegant by only looking for miniperl if
> PERL_CORE is set. I can fix it in ExtUtils::MM_Unix (patch below),
> but somebody else is going to have to fix this in MM_VMS:
Thanks, applied.
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