Re: Error running Makefile.PL on Windows

[email protected] (Christopher Chavez) Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:00:57 -0500
Newsgroups perl.tcltk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/20/2018 2:36 PM, Konovalov, Vadim wrote:
>> I have a machine with Windows 10 64-bit 1803, ActivePerl* 5.24.3, and
>> ActiveTcl 8.6.7.
>>
>> *(Uses dmake and doesn't have gnu make. I'm not constrained
>> to
>> ActivePerl; I just didn't know about Strawberry until recently.)
>
> If you think that "dmake" is source of trouble, then we can add
> workaround in Makefile.PL  to handle your case.
>
> You can add a code that checks these vars $? and $! differently
>
> fortunately, our Makefile.PL already has a stub to deal with dmake,
> so you can benefit from it.
>
Fortunately I haven't encountered an issue with dmake specifically. I 
was checking to see if the past few commits of Tcl.pm would compile, and 
found the one from a few weeks ago when there were some suspicions over 
dmake causing compilation issues. The "dmake prohibited" message seemed 
to confuse ActivePerl for "modified" Strawberry Perl installation due to 
presence of dmake/lack of GNU make. But that message has since been 
reverted since the problem (if there is one) is believed to be elsewhere.

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