Re: integration of perl with automake

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Andreas Otto wrote:

>  to build a perl extension it's best to use the perl build-system based on
>
>         perl Makefile.PL

I have been dealing with this situation for many (11?) years (first in 
ImageMagick, and then in GraphicsMagick).  It is really difficult to 
integrate Automake with Perl's Make::Maker because Perl's Make::Maker 
does not observe any normal conventions and has a mind of its own 
based on whatever options were used way back when perl itself was 
built with some other compiler.  Nightmare is an understatement. 
Regardless, I suggest to take a look at ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick 
Automake makefiles to see how it may be done.

See the hunk of junk at

http://cvs.graphicsmagick.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/GraphicsMagick/PerlMagick/Makefile.am

Bob
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