bsd.perl.mk (Was: Re: _PERL_REFACTORING_COMPLETE lang/perl5.12 Mk/bsd.perl.mk)

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Mark Linimon wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:47:11PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> When I asked you what was necessary to test this, you said all that was
>> necessary was to define _PERL_REFACTORING_COMPLETE.
>
> And my memory slipped.
>
> The explanation, however, was correct: the problem is that if you
> unconditionally include bsd.perl.mk, everything works, and if you
> conditionally include it, it doesn't.  If you didn't patch the code
> that does the conditional include, then you didn't test for the
> actual problem.
>
> This is a case of believing the author and/or the documentation, and
> not looking at the

6,408 lines of

> code.
>
> I made a mistake; it was not intentional; I'm sorry.
>
> mcl
>
>


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