From 6626a13ac83996c34a9c1fb4149bac6ad3a7b8d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael G. Schwern" <schwern@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:12:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] Re: ndbm failing on linux ? Message-ID:
 <20020118011220.GC32762@blackrider>

(#14317 replaced with this)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14322
---
 lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm | 28 ++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
index 8daf275..1f414af 100644
--- a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+++ b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
@@ -163,20 +163,9 @@ sub eval_in_subdirs {
 sub eval_in_x {
     my($self,$dir) = @_;
     package main;
-    chdir $dir or
-	Carp::carp("Couldn't change to directory $dir: $!");
-
-    {
-	local *FH;
-	open(FH,"Makefile.PL") or
-	    Carp::carp("Couldn't open Makefile.PL in $dir");
-	local $/; # Sluuurp.
-	my $eval = join "", <FH>;
-	close FH;
-	# eval, not do, since we need lexical variables
-	eval $eval;
-    }
+    chdir $dir or Carp::carp("Couldn't change to directory $dir: $!");
 
+    eval { do './Makefile.PL' };
     if ($@) {
 # 	  if ($@ =~ /prerequisites/) {
 # 	      die "MakeMaker WARNING: $@";
@@ -687,11 +676,18 @@ sub check_hints {
     } continue {
 	last unless $hint =~ s/_[^_]*$//; # nothing to cut off
     }
-    return unless -f "hints/$hint.pl";    # really there
+    my $hint_file = "hints/$hint.pl";
+
+    return unless -f $hint_file;    # really there
 
     # execute the hintsfile:
-    print STDOUT "Processing hints file hints/$hint.pl\n";
-    eval { do "hints/$hint.pl" };
+    print STDOUT "Processing hints file $hint_file\n";
+    {
+        local *HINT;
+        open(HINT, $hint_file) || die "Can't open $hint_file: $!";
+        eval join '', <HINT>;
+        close HINT;
+    }
     print STDOUT $@ if $@;
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4