Ha. I certainly agree: it shouldn't be an issue. But it is. :)

Maybe I wasn't clear and it's totally my fault. When I said ".AppleDouble" files, I actually meant "shadow files that live inside of .AppleDouble directories". So, if I have a file "Foo.pm", I would likely also have a related file "./.AppleDouble/Foo.pm". Sorry about that.

My MANIFEST and MANIFEST.SKIP files are properly set up (and do not include .AppleDouble directories). My script is something like: make manifest; make clean; removeAppleDouble; perl Makefile.PL; make; make install On the make step, all of files like .AppleDouble/Foo.pm get put into blib. That's exactly what I'm trying to prevent!

(I don't always run that set of commands, usually all I need is removeAppleDouble; make install. But the problem is still there.)

Essentially, what I want is to stop make from looking in certain directories.

I am no expert on make, and I've been just taking the commands on faith without fully understanding the intricacies, so I may be missing something.

In reply to Re^2: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and dot files by SleepyJay
in thread ExtUtils::MakeMaker and dot files by SleepyJay

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