Re: Suggestion for gtk2-perl port for win32

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 01:38 +0800, Ye Wenbin wrote:

> When I build Gtk2 in windows, the main obstacle is some simple errors in  
> Makefile.
> For example, execute some one line perl code use single-quote, and use  
> Storable
> module which may lead to some unknown errors. So I suggest the MakeHelper  
> module
> so make some change to make the Makefile portable. For example, avoid to  
> use
> single-quote, use double-quote instead, and inside the string, use qq()  
> instead
> of double quote. And use Data::Dumper but Storable. The file will get a  
> little
> larger, but if choose a small indentation, it is not so big. More over, the
> Dump result is more readable.

If you can provide a patch that implements your suggestions, and doesn't
break the build on other platforms, we'd be pleased to apply it to fix
those problems.

> By the way, is there any advise for error "the command is too long" when  
> use
> nmake?

If I remember correctly, the cause for the long lines was related to the
automatic documentation generation.  So passing "disable-apidoc" to
Makefile.PL when running it should help.  But you lose the API docs, of
course.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten