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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm index 070156bedc..08a1c66ccd 100644 --- a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm +++ b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm @@ -441,7 +441,12 @@ sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::new { } if ($self->{PARENT}) { $self->{PARENT}->{CHILDREN}->{$newclass} = $self; - $self->{CAPI} = $self->{PARENT}->{CAPI}; + if (exists $self->{PARENT}->{CAPI} + and not exists $self->{CAPI}) + { + # inherit, but only if already unspecified + $self->{CAPI} = $self->{PARENT}->{CAPI}; + } } } else { parse_args($self,split(' ', $ENV{PERL_MM_OPT} || ''),@ARGV); @@ -1210,6 +1215,10 @@ currently used by MakeMaker but may be handy in Makefile.PLs. Switch to force usage of the Perl C API even when compiling for PERL_OBJECT. +Note that this attribute is passed through to any recursive build, +but if and only if the submodule's Makefile.PL itself makes no mention +of the 'CAPI' attribute. + =item CCFLAGS String that will be included in the compiler call command line between |