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Re: perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker + Autotools


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker + Autotools
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:15:58 -0500 (CDT)

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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