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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:13:16 -0800 (PST), Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   We use Perl's MakeMaker-generated makefiles to install Perl.  Since we
>   can't hack up MakeMaker's MM_Unix.pm to suit our build, we need chmod
>   to be around until we use our own makefiles to install perl.
  
Why can't we?  I've been advocating doing precisely that for years.
(I know, all talk and not action.)  I don't see anything fundamentally
wrong with fixing Perl's fundamentally broken build system.

-GAWollman



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