I've created a distribution containing a top-level Makefile.PL and two
sub-directories, say, Foo and Bar, each with their own Makefile.PL's.
Tests for the entire distribution are contained in a top-level t/
sub-directory; the two module sub-directories don't have their own t/
sub-directories because the tests for each module depend on the other
module so it just made more sense to put all the tests together at the
top-level:
Makefile.PL
Foo/Makefile.PL
Bar/Makefile.PL
t/*.t
When I run "[n]make test" from the top-level, I find that after the
top-level tests have been run I get two messages printed out about the
sub modules not having any tests defined:
[...]
All tests successful.
'No tests defined for Foo extension.'
'No tests defined for Bar extension.'
Those message obviously come from the "test" target in the sub-directory
Makefile's. I would like to suppress them because they look slightly
alarming: It looks as if I haven't written tests for the Foo and Bar
modules, but really I have -- they're in the top-level t/ sub-directory.
So I added the following to Foo/Makefile.PL and Bar/Makefile.PL:
sub MY::test {
return "test :: \$(TEST_TYPE)\n" .
"\t\$(NOECHO) \$(NOOP)\n";
}
This works fine except that it now produces a warning about "Subroutine
MY::test redefined" when running "perl Makefile.PL". Presumably this is
because all the Makefile.PL's are require()'d and run in the same
process (rather than being run by separate perl sub-processes), so I've
effectively defined MY::test twice in the same program.
I can workaround it by only overriding MY::test in _one_ of the
sub-directories' Makefile.PL's, but I don't like that: It doesn't "feel
right" and I must be careful to do it in the _first_ one that the
top-level Makefile.PL runs otherwise it doesn't apply to all
sub-directories.
Is there a more elegant way to do what I'm trying to achieve?
- Steve
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