> -----Original Message----- > From: Marvin Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:31 PM > To: Eric Wilhelm > Cc: inline@perl.org > Subject: Re: Multi-module install complications > > MakeMaker, when running a Makefile.PL, searches all > directories in the distro recursively for other files named > Makefile.PL. But it seems weird for me to hide another > Makefile.PL somewhere in my lib/ directory. Stuff like > Makefile.OLD doesn't clutters up those dirs fast, and > _anything_ in the PMLIBDIRS directories gets copied to the > installation destination. I have enough trouble trying to > keep vim's .swp files out of there! > > So if it isn't going to go in the lib directory, where?
Traditionally people create some other directory under the top-level directory (usually it's named, for example, Bar/ if it's building Foo::Bar) and put a separate Makefile.PL in there to build it. See, for example, my AI::DecisionTree distribution, which has an Instance/ subdirectory for building the AI::DecisionTree::Instance module. It's XS-based, not Inline-based, but it should work basically the same. -Ken
