Re: MakeMaker

Chas. Owens wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 19:28, Patrick Dupre<pd520@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Insi de my Makefile.PL, I would like to do something like:
> > LIBS   => ['-lm -L$(PATH) -lmlib'],
> >
> > with $PATH define at the beginning of the file, but I cannot make it
> > work !!!!
> > What am I doing wrong ?
> snip
>
> I see two things wrong: single quotes don't interpolate, $(PATH)
> doesn't mean what you thing it means.  Change the code to:
>
> LIBS => [ "-lm -L$PATH -lmlib" ],
>
> "$(PATH)" expands to $( . 'PATH)', $( is the real GID of the current
> process (see [perldoc perlvar][1]).  You may have meant "${PATH}", but
> that is not necessary since the string is not ambiguous (it is need in
> cases like this "${foo}bar" where Perl will think you want the
> variable $foobar rather than what you want: $foo).
>
> [1] : http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#$(

I don't think he wants it interpolated; he is talking about make(1) 
here.  Inside a Makefile, variables are written like $(VAR) except when 
you set them.  Then just the unadorned word is used.

How about:
  LIBS   => ['-lm', '-L$(PATH)', '-lmlib'],

or:
  LIBS   => [qw(-lm -L$(PATH) -lmlib)],


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