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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:49:42PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Something recently broke our ability to build extensions that run a
> Makefile.PL in a subdirectory, such as SDBM_File does. I found and
> fixed the problem code (patch below) but I can't see how the
> existing code ever worked nor what broke it. The only thing I can
> think of is that there was a scoping leak that compensated for
> another bug and the fact that we now run the subsidiary Makefile.PL
> using "do" plugged the scoping leak and exposed the other bug (which
> had to do with the fact that a command verb tests positive as an
> absolute filename).
Thanks, applied.
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