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1 | This is a CPAN distribution of the venerable MakeMaker module. It has been |
2 | backported to work with Perl 5.005_03 and up. |
3 | |
4 | If you do not have a make program, several can be found... |
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6 | Most Unixen: The make utility which comes with your operating system |
7 | should work fine. If you don't have one, GNU make is recommended, |
8 | most others (Sun, BSD, etc...) will work fine as well. |
9 | |
10 | Windows: nmake or dmake will work. GNU make will *not*. |
11 | ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe |
12 | http://search.cpan.org/author/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32/ |
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14 | VMS: MMS or the free MadGoat MaKe utility (MMK) will work. |
15 | http://www.madgoat.com/mmk.html |
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17 | If all else fails there is a pure Perl version of make available on |
18 | CPAN which should work on most Unixen. |
19 | http://search.cpan.org/author/NI-S/Make-1.00/ |
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22 | PLEASE NOTE: This distribution does not include the xsubpp or typemap |
23 | programs. They are extremely specific to your version or Perl, so |
24 | MakeMaker will simply use the one which came with your copy of Perl. |
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25 | Do not delete your old ExtUtils/ directory. An upgraded version of xsubpp |
26 | can be found in the ExtUtils::ParseXS module. |
27 | |
28 | Known Good Systems: |
29 | |
30 | Every stable MakeMaker release is tested at least on: |
31 | |
32 | MacOS X |
33 | Linux/x86 |
34 | ActivePerl on Windows 98 |
35 | Cygwin on Windows 98 |
36 | OpenVMS |
37 | |
38 | Covering the major portability flavors MakeMaker has to cover. |
39 | (I'm always on the lookout for DJGPP, Solaris, *BSD and OS/2 users) |
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41 | |
42 | Known Problems: |
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44 | (See http://rt.cpan.org for a full list of open problems.) |
45 | |
46 | ActivePerl likely broken if installed in C:\Program Files or other |
47 | prefix with a space in the name. |
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49 | Using the MMS utility on VMS causes lots of extra newlines. Unknown |
50 | why this is so, might be a bug in MMS. Problem not seen with MMK. |
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52 | MacOS Classic is likely broken. |
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55 | See TODO for details. |
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57 | Please report any bugs via http://rt.cpan.org or to makemaker@perl.org. |