Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker help - PL_FILES

[Alberto Simões]

Hey

brian d foy wrote:
> In article <4a93f5ae.6000...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>, Alberto Simões
> <al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I am using PL_FILES => { foo/bar.PL => foo/bar }, and foo/bar.PL uses a
>> lateral file (say, ugh.txt) on the distro to build the script foo/bar.
>>
>> How can I force the dependency, so make knows it should rebuild foo/bar
>> when I change ugh.txt?
> 
> I don't know a way that you can do this from Makemaker.
> 
> Have you tried creating the dependency in the Makefile itself? You
> insert a bit of code into the Makefile through MY::postamble, and you
> make it run the same thing that processes the PL_FILES.

Yes, that's an option.
But
> That's certainly ugly.
:)

> When you get down to this level of detail, it's
> sometimes easier to use Module::Build unless you have some other
> contraint that forces you to use MakeMaker.

At the moment my only constrain is take time to look into M::B :)

Thanks
ambs
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