Hi Allen,

Thanks for the tip on DIR in MakeMaker.  I am new to this game and am
definitely looking for the
simplest,  easiest and most supportable install.  I believe I will soon
have a product that has many
modules since I am using the object oriented method with Perl.  There
will probably be many
dependancies.  I am hoping the method you recommend will allow one pass
of the
'perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install' procedures can handle
all of them in the proper order.
I will definitely be looking into it.

Thanks again,

:) Chris Meyer
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Allen Smith wrote:

> On Feb 8, 12:36pm, Chris Meyer wrote:
> > You didn't install the Word module first.  The README in the
> Harveycp
> > directory notes that you have to install the Word module, then the
> > Verb module and then the Harvey module.  Harvey is dependant on the
> > others being installed first.
>
> Ah. CPAN has no way of knowing this...
>
> > I am thinking that I will make a shell script that runs through
> > these installs and just does everything in the right order.  This
> > will be crucial as the project grows.
>
> You might look at the facility in ExtUtils::MakeMaker of doing
> subdirectories with Makefile.PLs, via DIR. Admittedly, the MakeMaker
> documentation of that is lacking, in that the manpage refers to
> ext/SDBM_File as using it - which it doesn't. However, I suspect this
> will be the easiest to maintain long-term with changes in CPAN.
>
>         -Allen
>
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> Allen Smith                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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