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This queue is for tickets about the ExtUtils-MakeMaker CPAN distribution.

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Id: 9709
Status: resolved
Worked: 10 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: ExtUtils-MakeMaker

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: jhi [...] iki.fi
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Bug Information
Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 6.25_07
Fixed in: 6.84



Subject: A little more verbosity
I was totally freaked out by this output from "perl Makefile.PL": Writing Makefile for Foo Writing Makefile for Foo Writing Makefile for Foo until I realized that I had two earlier versions of Foo opened up in cwd, and EU::MM was being 'helpful' by recursing through the Makefile.PLs in the subdirectories. The recursion as such is good, but to avoid future palpitations how about changing the default "Writing ..." message to include the directory name in parentheses, like Writing Makefile for Foo (/home/yadda/Foo) Writing Makefile for Foo (/home/yadda/Foo/Foo-0.1) Writing Makefile for Foo (/home/yadda/Foo/Foo-0.2) or would that be too drastic a change to the age-old output format of EU::MM...? Or add the directory name only during recursion? Or output a separate message for the recursion itself?
Thank you for your report. A recent change to EUMM that is available in v6.84 will no longer recurse into directories that look like older dist directories. Cheers.