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

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 11:13 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> 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.
>

No need to dig it up - that's now been incorporated into the 
main distribution (which I swear, I should get out in the next 
couple days) as a "pass-through" Makefile.PL.

  -Ken