| Date: | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:15:51 -0700 |
| From: | Michael G Schwern <schwern [...] pobox.com> |
| To: | "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw [...] qsl.net> |
| CC: | makemaker [...] perl.org, bailey [...] newman.upenn.edu, vmsperl [...] perl.org, perl5-porters [...] perl.org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG: MAKEMAKER 6.30_01 and blead in MM_UNIX.pm for VMS |
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:52:20PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote:
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> As there is no "false" command on VMS, this is causing rerunning a make
> to fail.
>
> Would adding the following line before the return $m be the fix for
> this? Or is something else needed to make sure only the last line is
> removed?
>
> $m =~ s/false\n// if $IsVMS;
I see a number of uses of "false" in MM_Unix. Rather than throw in more
VMS exceptions (blech) I'll make a $(FALSE) which can be something safe like
perl -e 'exit 1'
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