I generated this Makefile.PL 
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(
    'NAME'        => 'Exporter::VA',
    'VERSION_FROM'    => 'Exporter-VA.pm', # finds $VERSION
    'PREREQ_PM'        => {}, # e.g., Module::Name => 1.1
    ($] >= 5.005 ?    ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.005
      (ABSTRACT_FROM => 'Exporter-VA.pm', # retrieve abstract from mod
+ule
       AUTHOR     => 'John M. Dlugosz <john@dlugosz.com>') : ()),
);

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When I run it on my Windows 2000 box, I get a pop-up dialog box entitled "WinIEPG - ()" with a little flag icon. It asks if I want to make a Recording or a Viewing Reminder, and what Record Quality, and on what channel. This appears to be part of WinDVR, a digital video recorder that came with the TV I/O thingie.

Apparently, it grabbed the .PL extension for itself when WinDVR was installed. I hadn't noticed because I use ".perl" for files that are meant to be top-level runnable programs. Easy enough to fix.

Now I get this: 

Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the ar
+chitecture
they are running on.
Perl thinks: [lib]
Config says: [MSWin32-x86-multi-thread]

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When I run ActiveState's Perl with -v, it tells me the latter. What's this mean?

A few misc. questions:
How do I get make install to not copy all the *.pm files? Some of them are for the tester, not the module itself.

How do I get make test to recognise and use my tester?

More Seriously, it got the name wrong! It copied Exporter-VA.pm to site\lib\Exporter\Exporter-VA.pm, which means it noticed the correct path as part of the module name but not the naming convention of the file. How do I get that to work right? —John

In reply to Makefile.PL even weirder on Windows by John M. Dlugosz

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