Re: Makefile.PL's with dependancies

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig))
Newsgroups perl.cpan.discuss,perl.dbi.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:21:01 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[email protected]> said:

 tm> 	In DBI's case it isn't neccessary at all. But I am working on some
 tm> modules where the Build.PL/Makefile.PL will require extra modules in order
 tm> to function. Is there currently a way to make CPAN/CPANPLUS re-run
 tm> Build.PL/Makefile.PL after dependancies have been satisfied? Especially
 tm> cosnidering that unlinking "Makefile" won't do the trick, since the
 tm> dependancies are often grabbed from there....

With newer CPAN.pm all you need to write is a correct META.yml. If
then the user has YAML installed, all's well. YAML is in Bundle::CPAN,
so there is hope that people have it.

But to answer your question, no, there seems not to be a way to rerun
the Makefile.PL.

-- 
andreas
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