Re: [Module-build-general] Re: Recursive building

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

Hi Scott, Ken,

A lot of the people I've spoken to about M::B have pointed out that it  
doesn't do recursive builds yet, and for some of them it's a deciding  
factor to stick with MakeMaker.  I'd say this is something that needs  
to go on the TODO list.

-Steve

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 05:57  pm, Scott Cain wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just wanted to follow up with a simple example to illustrate what Ken
> is talking about here.  If I have the following directory structure:
>
>   Top/
>      Makefile.PL
>      MANIFEST
>      sub1/
>          Makefile.PL
>          sub2/
>              Makefile.PL
>
> and I execute `perl Makefile.PL`, then it magically recognizes that
> there are Makefile.PL files in subdirectories and creates Makefiles for
> those directories.  If I replace Makefile.PL with Build.PL, that magic
> no longer appears to happen.  Additionally, `perl Build.PL` croaks
> because there is no lib/ directory, and in the above scheme, there may
> not always be a lib directory.  I've attached two tarballs with
> Makefile.PLs and Build.PLs to illustrate.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 15:37, Ken Y. Clark wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> We're discussing use of Module::Build for GMOD (http://www.gmod.org/),
>> a rather large umbrella for many other projects.  Currently, each part
>> of GMOD is a separate download and build, some parts of which are Perl
>> and some Java.  The goal is to integrate them more fully one day,
>> perhaps providing and installation process wherein you say "perl
>> Build.PL --enable=foo --enable=bar" for each piece you want, and then
>> the builds for each project go from there.  Is it possible to have
>> M::B build recursively through subdirectories?  Further, what would it
>> be like if some projects built differently from others, e.g., some
>> still use ExtUtils::MakeMaker and some M::B?
>>
>> ky
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