Re: perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker + Autotools

[Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Stony Yakovac wrote:

> I have a project which I have put under autotools which has several perl
> packages associated with it.  One of them is swigged, two are pure
> perl.  The dilemma is not building for development, I was able to do
> that with the install-exec-hook, the dilemma is how to get the whole
> project past distcheck.  I have been trying for weeks now.  I have gone
> from putting all kinds of support in the Makefile.am files to trying to
> duplicate the functionality of automake in ExtUtils::MakeMaker (which
> required some fairly significant changes to ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
>
> Has anyone done this?  I have searched the web, but have not been happy
> with what I found.  Does anyone have suggestions?

When the wind is blowing right, I have achieved this in GraphicsMagick 
(http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/) by using "hooks" in the top 
Makefile.am.  These are aware of MakeMaker subtargets.  The Perl 
extension is built static by default, which avoids issues with shared 
libraries, and convincing Perl to find/load the module.

If your project does not absolutely require the Perl component you 
could have it disabled by default, or (as I learned yesterday), you 
can include the configure option to disable it while doing distcheck 
in DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.

Bob
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