Please help, Perl Module problem.

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:

> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > But if you will accept a patch that modifies the makemaker stuff, I'll hack
> > > one out over the next week or so, just so that we can stop getting the same
> > > FAQ from everyone ;-)
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:37:02PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > My main concern is running autoconf substitutions on perl scripts sounds
> > like a good place for all sorts of doom to happen.
>
> It's just a proxy thing, because you're pushing the macro into makemaker
> and then pushing it right onward to the destination file.  But I can
> understand your logic ;-)

Really, I'm just more comfortable with the fact that the people who wrote
makemaker were likely thinking about how to do the substitutions safely in
perl scripts, where as the autoconf people probably weren't.

-Rob

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