Ken Williams wrote:
Hi Roman,
I was hoping someone else would jump in with more information than I
have, but it looks like nobody else has. As far as I'm aware, there's
no analog of Inline::MakeMaker for M::B, but it would certainly be nice
to have.
(Sorry, I've been hiding again...)
I have taken a brief look[1,2], but I'm not an Inline user either.
However, it looks fairly simple. It boils down to a few ops:
1) Silently insert a dependency on Inline
2) Add Inline's temp build directory to the cleanup
3) Run the Inline filter on the main module file (this seems an
unnecessary limitation; why not more than one Inline file?). In
MakeMaker the rule used is:
.pm.inl:
\$(PERL) -Mblib -MInline=NOISY,_INSTALL_ -M$name -e1 $version
\$(INST_ARCHLIB)
Inline itself checks to see if it is necessary to rebuild, so it's just
an unconditional execution of the filter.
Not sure about the interface though. Is there a reason for the
limitation mentioned above. If so, we just run the filter on dist_name.
Otherwise, we could allow multiple modules to be specified:
my $builder = Module::Build->new(
...
inline => [ 'lib/Foo.pm', 'lib/Bar.pm' ],
);
Randy.
1) <http://search.cpan.org/src/INGY/Inline-0.44/lib/Inline/MakeMaker.pm>
2)
<http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/Inline.pod#Writing_Modules_with_Inline>
