configure -> Makefile.PL / Build.PL
[email protected] (Michael G Schwern)
| Newsgroups | perl.module.build,perl.makemaker |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
It occurs to me that, like it or not, much of the rest of the software universe uses autoconf or autoconf-like things. Would it make Perl software easier to install if there was a translator so people can pretend that modules can be built like autoconf? There could be an installed perl2configure.pl which translated autoconf options the appropriate Makefile.PL or Build.PL and then called it. So this... perl2configure.pl --prefix=~ becomes Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=~ or Build.PL --installl_base=~ It then creates an intermediate Makefile to perform translations between it's make targets and options and ours. Doesn't seem like it's a whole lot of work to get it going with the basic autoconf options. Devil's in the details to get all the many options right, especially all the make options. It wouldn't have to be shipped with modules, perl2configure.pl would be installed. Does this seem useful at this late a date? -- There will be snacks.