Re: '()' escaped to '\(\)' is breaking my build

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:26:26 -0800
Newsgroups perl.makemaker
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Anderson wrote:
> The key line is:
> 
>>     LDDLFLAGS         => '-libpath:"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft 
>> Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib"
> The parenthesis are annoyingly escaped when creating the Makefile:
> 
>> LDDLFLAGS = -libpath:"c:\Program Files \(x86\)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> 9.0\VC\lib" -libpath:"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib"
> Which breaks the build on Windows. The INC attribute doesn't do that so 
> why does LDDLFLAGS? I've tried moving those options into LD but it has 
> the same problem. For now I'm going to have to modify the generated 
> Makefile each time I call Makefile.PL.

Sorry about that.

Please attach your Makefile and a copy of the build error, then we can get 
started investigating.


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package Outer::Space;  use Test::More tests => 9;