On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 01:15 , Brian K wrote:
> Here is a question that I will likely be ashamed I asked, once I have a
> clue...
that's the way they all start out....
{ the 'twack!' sound you hear is the folks going - "OH! that's
what that skank document meant.... }
[..]
> I am so new to perl that I don't know what to do with this newly created
> file.
You came to the right place.
> The install docs assume a level of knowledge I don't have yet.
the tradition SHOULD have been documented as
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
a 'Makefile' is the 'default input file' for 'make' a standard
geek tool that establishes relationships between 'targets'
and the 'dependencies' - hence if a dependency has changed
it will know to remake only a given target....
if you have a 'man' or 'help index' or such - it should go
into boring details about make.... but those are questions
you really want to take to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask them
> Is there any hope? :-)
No, from here on out it just gets weirder.
The next thing you know you're hanging out on the beginner's
mailing list looking for new questions to play with.... and
then it's through the Perl Module Creation Cycle, a few XS
extensions.....
ciao
drieux
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