On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: > > What about adding a new flag? e.g. if the main Makefile.PL says: > > WriteMakefile( > PrivateCompartment => 1, > ... > ) > > then it'll provide one and all children will inherit it unless > they explicitly override it?
It's difficult to add new flags to MakeMaker, because you have to ensure that all the people installing your module have a version of MakeMaker that supports it. Perhaps "difficult" isn't the right word - more like "futile". If you don't mind putting a MakeMaker dependency in the distribution, though, it can be done. Really, it would be nice to have separate "build_dependency" items, like a real package manager. Stas, for your problem, a really ugly but workable solution might be to fork the main process in each of the subdirs' Makefile.PL's, oder? -Ken
