John Peacock wrote:
I sent a patch to Module::Build to add support for version objects (and
there was much rejoicing - Yeeeah!). Unfortunately, version uses
Module::Build for its own installer, so if you don't have Module::Build
already installed, you can't install Module::Build (and there was much
gnashing of teeth).
So, I need to whip up a fully EU::MM-compatible Makefile.PL for
version.pm, but it needs to do a lot of sophisticated leaping about and
shouting because:
1) I have both an XS and pure Perl implementation (so I need to test for
a compiler and branch accordingly);
2) I use M::B's XS handling, so the XS and supporting .c files are
located in a subdirectory (not in the project root like EU::MM expects).
I tried setting up an XS module to build with both EU::MM and M::B
myself quite a long time ago and couldn't get it to work, although Ken
stated that it was his intention to allow it to work:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3774994&forum_id=10905
I haven't tried since, but from what you've said it sounds like maybe
this still isn't fixed :-(
It may be that the only way right now is to do some copying of files
into the appropriate locations for each build system before attempting
the build. If there is a more elegant way to do it then I'd also like
to know what it is.
It also got tangled up in discussions about recursion:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7373740
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