On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Piers Harding wrote: > Another question - is it possible to get the Build.PL file to > sufficiently emulate a Makefile.PL file so that - > (a) if someone doesn't have Module::Build they get informed of it > and > (b) CPAN.pm can work with it? ie. rename the Build.PL to Makefile.PL - > and it just works. That might be a goal to aim for, as people who are > not familiar/interested in module build processes use tools like CPAN.pm > and ppms.
I created a very simple Makefile a while back that could be written by a Makefile.PL (which also called Build.PL) that simply passed everything through to './build'. I don't know how cross-platform compatible it was, but I could surely dig it up for testing. -dave
