2011/7/7 Marco Moreno:
> Reini,
>
> After doing a little debugging, I discovered why installing
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker
> was failing for me. ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin.pm contains:
>
> =item maybe_command
>
> If our path begins with F</cygdrive/> then we use C<ExtUtils::MM_Win32>
> to determine if it may be a command. Otherwise we use the tests
> from C<ExtUtils::MM_Unix>.
>
> =cut
>
> sub maybe_command {
> my ($self, $file) = @_;
>
> if ($file =~ m{^/cygdrive/}i) {
> return ExtUtils::MM_Win32->maybe_command($file);
> }
>
> return $self->SUPER::maybe_command($file);
> }
>
>
> Obviously, if your cygdrive prefix is something else (e.g. '/'), then
> this will fail.
>
> What do you think of this instead:
>
> =item maybe_command
>
> Determine whether a file is native to Cygwin by checking whether it
> resides inside the Cygwin installation (using Windows paths). If so,
> use C<ExtUtils::MM_Unix> to determine if it may be a command.
> Otherwise use the tests from C<ExtUtils::MM_Win32>.
>
> =cut
>
> sub maybe_command {
> my ($self, $file) = @_;
>
> my $cygwin_winpath = Cygwin::posix_to_win_path('/', 1);
> my $file_winpath = Cygwin::posix_to_win_path($file, 1);
>
> return ($file_winpath =~ /^${cygwin_winpath}/)
> ? $self->SUPER::maybe_command($file)
> : ExtUtils::MM_Win32->maybe_command($file);
> }
>
>
> This passed all the tests and installed ok for me. Does this look
> ok to you and is it reasonable to assume that native Cygwin
> commands will always be inside the Cygwin installation directory?
> If this proposed change is worthy of implementing, what is the best
> way to do it? rt.cpan.org?
Sorry, I did not come to test this this weekend.
Yes, this uncommon cornercase looks worthy to be fixed.
Please file a perlbug for this. It should go to rt.perl.org.
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Reini
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