Add a --chdir option to configpm, and use this in the Win32 Makfiles.

A slight Makefile simplification, and another move towards Win32 standardising
on running miniperl as $(MINIPERL), which currently is ..\miniperl.exe

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configpm b/configpm
index 5baed2b99c..5b6a4e68e0 100755
--- a/configpm
+++ b/configpm
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ sub usage { die <<EOF }
 usage: $0  [ options ]
     --cross=PLATFORM    cross-compile for a different platform
     --no-glossary       don't include Porting/Glossary in lib/Config.pod
+    --chdir=dir         change directory before writing files
 EOF
 
 use strict;
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ my %Allowed_Opts = (
     'cross'    => '', # --cross=PLATFORM - crosscompiling for PLATFORM
     'glossary' => 1,  # --no-glossary  - no glossary file inclusion,
                       #                  for compactness
+    'chdir'    => '', # --chdir=dir    - change directory before writing files
 );
 
 sub opts {
@@ -85,6 +87,10 @@ sub opts {
 
 my %Opts = opts();
 
+if ($Opts{chdir}) {
+    chdir $Opts{chdir} or die "$0: could not chdir $Opts{chdir}: $!"
+}
+
 my ($Config_SH, $Config_PM, $Config_heavy, $Config_POD);
 my $Glossary = 'Porting/Glossary';