Greetings peeps,

Lately I've been doing lots of work with h2xs and its children to write Perl/C extensions and h2xs has an annoying trait the source of which I can't locate.   h2xs -A -n target creates a skeleton Makefile.PL in the target dirctory and that .PL file contains a basic definition of WriteMakefile(). It initializes the AUTHOR key to:

    AUTHOR => 'my_full_name <perlboy_emeritus@sd.apple.com>') : ()),

Name redacted to protect the guilty :-)

I'm using Perl (v5.18.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level running in macOS 10.13.3

My question is: Where does h2xs get that domain, sd.apple.com? That is not my email address and I have configured it nowhere. I've even tried sending email to that address, thinking that somehow Apple configured such an address for me, without informing me. They didn't; the mail bounced. It is annoying to have to change that line every time I create and then edit Makefile.PL.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

In reply to AUTHOR default setting in h2xs by perlboy_emeritus

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