Bug#606078: ExtUtils::MakeMaker: generated makefile can't cope with perl upgrade

[Jonathan Nieder]

Niko Tyni wrote:

> Yeah, that probably works. However, EU::MM upstream needs to be very
> careful about portability issues and the like. Looking at the FORCE
> target, I suspect
>
> $(CONFIGDEP) :
> 	$(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
>
> is the right way to do this.
>
> I'm generally not very enthusiastic about changing ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
> getting things upstreamed properly needs more portability care and
> testing than I'm comfortable with

Thanks for a thorough response.  I'll try to find time to pursue this
upstream.