On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 11:13 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> 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. > No need to dig it up - that's now been incorporated into the main distribution (which I swear, I should get out in the next couple days) as a "pass-through" Makefile.PL. -Ken
