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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> <Make_test.tar.gz><module_build.tar.gz>
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