--- Brian Ingerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/10/02 14:50 -0800, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > > --- Brian Ingerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 29/10/02 13:33 -0800, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > > > > > > --- James Michael DuPont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Everything is possible with CPAN::MakeMaker!!! > > > > > > > > > > Brian, I have been experimenting with the prefixes, > > > > > everything is happy, except my configuration directory. > > > > > > > > > > I will need to add a new install target into the > > > > > makefile to say something like this: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I had to ditch ExtTools::MakeMaker and CPAN::MakeMaker to get > this > > > to > > > > work. I generated the makefiles and modified them manually to > do > > > what > > > > it should do. It is very difficult to debug the makefile, > because I > > > > don't know what section of the code was responsable for > generating > > > what > > > > makefile section. > > > > > > I think there should be a way to do what you want with CP::MM. I > > > mean, > > > not at the moment, but in the future. I think it would be neat to > > > supply > > > an API that would expose the Makefile as an object and let you > tweak > > > it. > > > Give me some time to think about it. > > > > Please dump the representation of the makefile and project object > when > > it has all the information loaded into memory into a YAML document. > > Then we can edit the YAML document in a GUI, load it back into > memory > > with a freeze thaw interface, and presto, we have meta-programmed > the > > project interface. > > Interesting idea. Wrong mailing list ;) > > I'm looking into building a pure Perl version of gmake. It will use > object > oriented modules. You could use these yourself to parse and rewrite > the > Makefile. And you could always serialize the object in YAML.
And my stated aim is to interface, not rebuild perl, make, the gcc, bison, m4, shell and that will also need the build architecture. Inline and YAML can help there. Also the visualization tools like vcg,graphviz digramming tools like dia/sketch all rolled up into one by inline. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
