Re: smarter makes

[Henrik Tougaard <ht.000@foa.dk>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
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> 
> Likewise with building modules: why should I have to remember the "perl
> Makefile.PL" step, when an initial default makefile would know to do
> that for me?

Well - I can answer a bit of that one.

On non-POSIX systems (eg: VMS) the make/Makefile pair might be named
something quite different (eg: mms/descrip.mms).

It makes the task of porting modules easier (not much, but some) that
the installation process start with 'perl Makefile.PL' - after all
perl is normally called perl.
After this initial step we do VMSish things on VMS and POSIXish thing
on POSIXy systems...

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