Re: [Module-build-general] make doesn't create man pages

[Steve P. <sp...@qu...>]

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 03:42  pm, Ken Williams wrote:

>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 06:32  PM, Steve Purkis wrote:
>>
>> To fix it you could make 'build' dispatch to 'builddocs', but that 
>> would be bad seeing as 'builddocs' should (but doesn't for some 
>> reason?) depend on 'build', which means an infinite loop.
>>
>> So maybe the best idea is to take the common code out of 'builddocs' 
>> and call it from both actions, and fix the dependency issue?
>
> Hmm, this isn't the first time this kind of dependency issue has 
> cropped up.  Building the META.yml file had the same issues, it took 
> Dave several tries to rework the dependency order.
>
> I'm thinking it would be best to make depends_on() work like perl's 
> require(), in that it will only run each action once per "./Build foo" 
> (i.e. once per dispatch() invocation).  If that proves too inflexible 
> we may need to provide additional controls on it, but I think it 
> should simplify dependencies quite a bit.

Hmm...  that sounds like a good idea.  Maybe store everything in 
$self->{_completed_actions} or something.  Can't promise anything, but 
I'll have a look into it in my copious amounts of free time next week.

-Steve