Bug#660195: perl: Makefile.PL arguments not passed to recursive invocations

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Sun Feb 26 19:38:41 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 08:27:18AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > > The next step could be finding out which XS module packages have
> > > more than one Makefile.PL inside and testing those.
> 
> Scripting a bit on lintian.debian.org gives 104 source packages with
> more than one Makefile.PL file. 59 of those are arch:any; I can't
> imagine how the proposed patch could affect arch:all packages.
> 
> So if those 59 packages still build with the patch, I think
> it's good enough to go in unstable.
> 
> Not sure how soon I can get them tested, so I'm attaching just
> the list for now.

Thanks for your work on this issue. I'm part-way through a rebuild of
the packages you mention with your latest patch included in perl.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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