Thanks Slaven,
I thought gnutar would remove those - thanks for letting me know it
doesn't!
Chris.
On 27 Oct 2007, at 17:30, Slaven_Rezic via RT wrote:
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> Sat Oct 27 12:30:36 2007: Request 30302 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by SREZIC
> Queue: TRL-Microarray
> Subject: (No subject given)
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: Important
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: SREZIC@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30302 >
>
>
> In TRL-Microarray-0.063 the distribution contains additional
> MacOSX-specific(?) files, which probably should not be there. The
> included ._Makefile.PL for example causes problems: normally when
> executing Makefile.PL, all other files ending on *.PL are also
> executed.
> This of course fails with ._Makefile.PL
>
> It could be that the problems lies in the way tar works on MacOSX, and
> maybe should be fixed in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
>
> Regards,
> Slaven
>
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