Re: [Module-build-general] Re: recursive makes (was Question about Defaults)
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From: Ken W. <ke...@ma...> - 2003-03-20 14:06:06
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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 |