On 3/18/06, Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moin, > > On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:12, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > From my understanding, one of the little idiosyncrasies of > > Makefile.PL/Build.PL installers (including MI variants of both) is that > > in order to make sure that the Makefile and Build use the correct perl > > installation, you should always be explicitly running M/B.PL with the > > perl you want to install the module with, and NOT necesarily with the > > default perl. > > > > This is why installation instructions read > > > > perl Makefile.PL > > make > > make test > > make install > > > > and not > > > > ./Makefile.PL > > make > > make test > > make install > > For what a tiny fraction of users is there a distinction between these > two? And how many users read the insturctions at all, and if, do get the > subtle difference or just use "./Makefile.PL" anyway?
Many users have multiple perl installs on their machines. Especially on certain architectures where the manufacturer bundles an old perl on the box. For instance on many of the HPUX boxes i have to use there is perl4, perl5.6 and perl 5.8, and im always having to explain to people about finding the right perl before they start CPAN or whatever. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
