Re: Knowing INSTALL_BASE value

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern)
Newsgroups perl.makemaker
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brian d foy wrote:
> If you are just processing dist to discover information, you can write
> your own WriteMakefile routine and grab the answers that way. Look
> inside Test::Prereq, for instance. I don't like having to do it that
> way, but I haven't come up with something better.

It is not documented, but WriteMakefile() returns the MM object.  It's 
unlikely to go away as it's very handy for testing.  I should probably just 
document it.


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