Re: CPAN newbie submitter question

[email protected] (Ricardo SIGNES) Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:05:03 -0400

Newsgroups	perl.cpan.discuss
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

* Nathan Lewis <[email protected]> [2005-08-15T16:54:12]
> > The distribution contains a blib/ directory and is
> > therefore not being
> > indexed. Hint: try 'make dist'.
> 
> I fixed it on my machine by running make clean in my
> directory and then deleting the Makefile before re
> taring the directory.

Are you manually tarring your distribution?  Don't do that.

Are you using Module::Build or ExtUtils::MakeMaker?  You should be.

If you use (say) ExtUtils::MakeMaker, you will do this:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make manifest
	make disttest
	make dist

And you will have a tarball ready to upload.

-- 
rjbs

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