note Anonymous Monk <i>Well, over the last decade i've seen hundreds try to improve their Makefile.PL, all they do is break INC=/LIBS=/postamble, and require my manual intervention beyond specifying INC/LIBS </i> <p> Sounds like a personal problem ... </p> <p><i>there are way too many platform/compiler combinations, bugs are easy to make</i></p> <p> Agreed, And that is exactly why a Dumb MakeMaker is a Smart MakeMaker! </p> <p><i> Take a look inside Alien::, inside Alien::SDL, Alien::wxWidgets, XML::LibXML, and check the bug cue -- reinventing sh configure is hard work </i></p> <p> Sorry, But I could really care less about others workload, I have my own to worry about. </p> <p><i>there is a lot to be said for KISS </i></p> <p>Love their music ... However, Keeping It Stupid Simple is my point, it's not, it's trying to be smart and failing!</p> <p><i>Nope, read Re^5: h2xs on Windows, it has always accepted them, before :nosearch liblist would leave them alone, but since :nosearch it doesn't leave them alone unless you use :nosearch </i></p> <p>The code in Kid.pm::_unix_os2_ext says you are wrong ...<br> I'm not on Windows so I could care less how it functions on Windows.</p> <p> -Enjoy </p> 1014012 1014181 0