On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Geoffrey Young wrote:
I don't ever use CPAN.pm, so I don't know if the way I have been going about it actually works or not, but my standard 1.0 Makefile.PL (which was linked to in the perl.com article) looks something like
sub MY::test { eval { require Apache::Test; require Apache::TestMM; require Apache::TestRunPerl;
Apache::TestMM->import(qw(test clean)); Apache::TestMM::filter_args();
Apache::TestRunPerl->generate_script();
return Apache::TestMM->test; }
or return <<EOF; test:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This test suite requires Apache-Test, [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is available from the mod_perl 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sources, CPAN, or the httpd-test distribution. EOF }
this makes 'make test' echo the error string or run the tests, depending on whether A::T is installed. in either case, 'make test' is successful (I hope :)
That seems like a good idea. I just did some experimentation on my own, and discovered that both CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS run Makefile.PL twice -- once before satisfying dependences, and once after satisfying dependencies. So it works well structure the Makefile.PL like this:
if (eval {require Apache::Test}) {
require Apache::TestMM;
require Apache::TestRunPerl;
Apache::TestMM->import(qw(test clean));
Apache::TestMM::filter_args();
Apache::TestRunPerl->generate_script();
} else {
print "Skipping test setup.\n";
}But I agree that it's smart to go one step further and install the default `make test` as you describe. I'll have to try that.
Thanks,
David
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