Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker wrongly sets MAKE

  la 08/17/2010 03:22 AM Michael G Schwern skribis:
> On 2010.8.16 5:04 PM, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>> The value for $Config{make} is documented as being not useful, but it
>> appears that Win32 does reliably set it to something relevant.  This can
>> be important for generating the correct makefiles, but I agree that as
>> long as $Config{make_set_make} eq '#', then it would seem that it doesn't
>> need to be explicitly set in the generated makefiles.  I don't know why it
>> is; nor do I know what would break if anyone tried removing it.  It might
>> be interesting to test and see.
> Oooh, good catch!  Yes, MakeMaker can definitely use that to set MAKE in the
> case where we're guessing that the make used will be $Config{make}.
Not perfect, but much better!

> If MAKE is passed in, we're back to square one.
If the user forces you, then it's not your fault ;-)

> I think VMS is the only
> serious contender at this point.  Anyone have a slew of makes available to
> try?  gmake and bsdmake both set MAKE.
I'll try to find time tomorrow to snoop around.

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