consider instead working on Module::Build, MakeMaker's heir apparent.
+Reporting bugs
+
+- Often the only information we have for fixing a bug is contained in your
+ report. So...
+
+- Please report your bugs via http://rt.cpan.org or by mailing to
+ makemaker@perl.org. RT is preferred.
+
+- Please report your bug immediately upon encountering it. Do not wait
+ until you have a patch to fix the bug. Patches are good, but not at
+ the expense of timely bug reports.
+
+- Please be as verbose as possible. Include the complete output of
+ your 'make test' or even 'make test TEST_VERBOSE=1' and a copy of the
+ generated Makefile. Err on the side of verbosity. The more data we
+ have to work with, the faster we can diagnose the problem.
+
+- If you find an undocumented feature, or if a feature has changed/been
+ added which causes a problem, report it. Do not assume it was done
+ deliberately. Even if it was done deliberately, we still want to hear
+ if it caused problems.
+
+- If you're testing MakeMaker against a development version of Perl,
+ please also check it against the latest stable version. This makes it
+ easier to figure out if its MakeMaker or Perl at fault.
+
+
Patching details
- Please use unified diffs. (diff -u)
creating one. Its ok to have an MM_* module with only one method.
- Some shells have very small buffers. This means command lines must
- be as small as possible. 20K is the upper limit for Unixen, and 256
- for VMS. Not sure what Windows and DOS are limited to, probably 1K.
- This limit *includes* any files passed into it. Some modules (such as
- bioperl) generate enourmous commands because of their large number of
- files. If your command is just too long, consider making it an
- ExtUtils::Command::MM function.
+ be as small as possible. If your command is just too long, consider
+ making it an ExtUtils::Command::MM function. If your command might
+ receive many arguments (such as pod2man or pm_to_blib) consider
+ using split_command() to split it into several, shorter calls.
- Most shells quote differently. If you need to put a perl one-liner
in the Makefile, please use oneliner() to generate it.