Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker help - PL_FILES

In article <[email protected]>, Alberto Simões
<[email protected]> wrote:


> I am using PL_FILES => { foo/bar.PL => foo/bar }, and foo/bar.PL uses a
> lateral file (say, ugh.txt) on the distro to build the script foo/bar.
> 
> How can I force the dependency, so make knows it should rebuild foo/bar
> when I change ugh.txt?

I don't know a way that you can do this from Makemaker.

Have you tried creating the dependency in the Makefile itself? You
insert a bit of code into the Makefile through MY::postamble, and you
make it run the same thing that processes the PL_FILES.

That's certainly ugly. When you get down to this level of detail, it's
sometimes easier to use Module::Build unless you have some other
contraint that forces you to use MakeMaker.