And now I have to move to a new platform to test it all again. The setup script should be close to what I need, but, of course the stuff I typed at the command line needs to be rewritten on the new machine...

Are you asking about building your build scripts? I don't see why build scripts can't be treated as another package. The Unix way to handle cross-platform builds is configure (the docs even say there is Win32 support). The Perlish way is Module::Build or MakeMaker.

If you don't want to carry Perl around, it sounds like you may just want a variant of make clean that only impacts the 'build scripts', whatever they are. Makefiles are not Perl specific, all the platforms you mention should have a version of make (nmake for windows).

Or, maybe I've missed your point entirely.

--Solo

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In reply to Re: proving something other than perl by Solo
in thread proving something other than perl by Tanktalus

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