Re: [Module-build-general] Re: Inline and the 5.6.0 that comes with OS X

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Piers Harding wrote:

> Another question - is it possible to get the Build.PL file to
> sufficiently emulate a Makefile.PL file so that -
> (a) if someone doesn't have Module::Build they get informed of it
> and
> (b) CPAN.pm can work with it?  ie. rename the Build.PL to Makefile.PL -
> and it just works.  That might be a goal to aim for, as people who are
> not familiar/interested in module build processes use tools like CPAN.pm
> and ppms.

I created a very simple Makefile a while back that could be written by a
Makefile.PL (which also called Build.PL) that simply passed everything
through to './build'.  I don't know how cross-platform compatible it was,
but I could surely dig it up for testing.


-dave