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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:38:41PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.

And I can confirm that there was no new breakage as a result of the
change, so +1 from me for pushing this to unstable.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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