Re: [Module-build-general] Re: recursive makes (was Question about Defaults)

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

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 11:13  PM, Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote:
>
> I do actually use the recursive stuff. It's very useful for packaging
> modules together in a single lump.
>
> I have a bunch of in-house modules that generally get installed in one
> go and it's usual to just extract them all into the one directory and
> have a more or less empty Makefile.PL in the top level. A quick "perl
> Makefile.PL && make test install" later and they're all done.
>
> I'd be irritated if I had to explicitly list each one.

Hmm.  Okay.  We'll see if we can find some way to support both ways.  
Maybe even just a "recursive_build => 1" flag or something.


> On the XS front, is there a reason why compiles are done in lib rather
> _build or somewhere like that? I realise the objects get picked up by
> 'clean' anyway, and EU::MM was never that tidy about this, but the
> interim build state of a module might as well be tidy. No biggie 
> though.

Yeah, they should be done in some subdirectory of _build/ .  This has 
been on my unofficial to-do list (maybe I should use RT for this 
instead of my subconscious) for a while now.

  -Ken