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At 12:31 AM 1/21/2002 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>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.
>
>Was this before or after I botched ExtUtils::MakeMaker::check_hints()?
>ie. what patchlevel is this against?
This was against 14331 but the problem had been there for a week or two,
apparently showing up somewhere between 14191 and 14256 by my logs. The
repository browser is several months out of date for the "show all patches
to affect a file" feature, which contributed to my failure to pinpoint
exactly where the breakage occurred. I did see some list traffic about
SDBM_File being broken on Win32 recently but as far as I can tell this was
unrelated. Paul Green may be right that something he did exposed a latent
bug, but I'm not sure that matters since the code I ended up changing was
definitely inadequate.
The symptom was that $self->{PERL}, which looks like C<MCR [--]miniperl.exe>
in the parent, ended up looking like C<[-.MCR]> in the child because the
command verb was being treated as a directory spec and getting relativized.
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