Re: Draft manifest

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:02PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > > However, you don't need the latest perl to do this. What's wrong with
> > > building this extension in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/library/Fcntl
> > > with /usr/bin/perl during make world?
> > 
> > Because that uses MakeMaker, and MakeMaker is hostile to cross-builds.
> 
> Amen to that.

You may be interested to know that Vadim Konovalov is having some
progress in getting a useable cross-compilation setup with MakeMaker
(for WinCE on Win32, but the work looks portable enough).

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