On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:10:55AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>  On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:34:29 EDT, schwern@[...].com wrote:
>  >My only concern is that modules which live dual-lives on CPAN and the
>  >core will have to edit their Makefile.PL every time they sync.
>  
>  INSTALLDIRS=perl is actually passed on the command line when building
>  extensions.  If you want to a PERL_CORE thingy for this, it should
>  _not_ be hardwired into Makefile.PL.  Edit ext/util/make_ext instead.

Ok, I'm trying to do this but I don't understand what's going on.  A
few questions about how perl builds:

What is calling Makefile.PL for each of the ext/ directories?
What exactly am I supposed to do in make_ext to allow Makefile.PL to see
    a PERL_CORE flag?

Basically, I'm changing ExtUtils::MM_Unix so it spits out a $RUNPERL
that it uses instead of all the hardwired $(PERL) -I$(PERL_ARCH)
-I$(PERL_LIB).  If PERL_CORE is set, $RUNPERL will have the extra
-I's.  Otherwise its just $PERL.  I just can't figure out how to get
the ext/*/Makefile.PL's to see the PERL_CORE flag.


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those damn racoons!