module-build-general — General discussion about Module::Build project

Re: [Module-build-general] [PATCH] Make Compat.pm play well with old CPAN(PLUS)?.pm.

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Ken Williams wrote:

>
> On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 08:57 PM, Autrijus Tang wrote:
>> As attached.  Two things are fixed:
>>
>> - PREREQ_PM info is now written to Makefile.
>> - Friendly bootstrapping code that makes Module::Build to
>>   be installed first.
>
> Both good goals.
>

Here's the patch in the form I'm applying it.  It uses a new 
_build/prereq file to get the valid prereq information.

  -Ken

===================================================================
RCS file: /Users/ken/src/CVS-repository/modules/Module-
Build/lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 Compat.pm
--- Compat.pm	2002/08/11 10:14:09	1.4
+++ Compat.pm	2002/08/19 09:20:07
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# $Id $

  package Module::Build::Compat;
  use strict;
+use File::Spec;

  my %makefile_to_build =
    (
@@ -40,12 +40,32 @@
  EOF
  }

+sub fake_prereqs {
+  my $file = File::Spec->catfile('_build', 'prereqs');
+  open my $fh, "< $file" or die "Can't read $file: $!";
+  my $prereqs = eval do {local $/; <$fh>};
+  close $fh;
+
+  my @prereq;
+  foreach my $section (qw/build_requires requires recommends/) {
+    foreach (keys %{$prereqs->{$section}}) {
+      next if $_ eq 'perl';
+      push @prereq, "$_=>q[$prereqs->{$section}{$_}]";
+    }
+  }
+
+  return unless @prereq;
+  return "#     PREREQ_PM => { " . join(", ", @prereq) . " }\n\n";
+}
+
+
  sub write_makefile {
    # Note - this doesn't yet emulate the PREREQ_PM stuff.

    my ($pack, %in) = @_;
    $in{makefile} ||= 'Makefile';
    open  MAKE, "> $in{makefile}" or die "Cannot write 
$in{makefile}: $!";
+  print MAKE $pack->fake_prereqs;
    print MAKE $pack->fake_makefile($in{makefile});
    close MAKE;
  }
@@ -59,12 +79,29 @@
  Module::Build::Compat - Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker

  =head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+Here's a Makefile.PL that passes all functionality through to 
Module::Build

- Here's a Makefile.PL that passes all functionality through to 
Module::Build
-
    use Module::Build::Compat;
    Module::Build::Compat->run_build_pl(args => \@ARGV);
    Module::Build::Compat->write_makefile();
+
+
+Or, here's one that's more careful about sensing whether Module::Build
+is already installed:
+
+  unless (eval { require Module::Build::Compat; 1 }) {
+    # Workaround with old CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm
+    require ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
+    ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile(
+      PREREQ_PM => { 'Module::Build::Compat' => 0 }
+    );
+    warn "Warning: prerequisite Module::Build::Compat is not found.\n";
+    exit(0);
+  }
+  Module::Build::Compat->run_build_pl(args => \@ARGV);
+  Module::Build::Compat->write_makefile();
+

  =head1 DESCRIPTION

Re: [Module-build-general] Re: Inline and the 5.6.0 that comes with OS X

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 11:13 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Piers Harding wrote:
>
>> Another question - is it possible to get the Build.PL file to
>> sufficiently emulate a Makefile.PL file so that -
>> (a) if someone doesn't have Module::Build they get informed of it
>> and
>> (b) CPAN.pm can work with it?  ie. rename the Build.PL to 
>> Makefile.PL -
>> and it just works.  That might be a goal to aim for, as people who are
>> not familiar/interested in module build processes use tools 
>> like CPAN.pm
>> and ppms.
>
> I created a very simple Makefile a while back that could be 
> written by a
> Makefile.PL (which also called Build.PL) that simply passed everything
> through to './build'.  I don't know how cross-platform 
> compatible it was,
> but I could surely dig it up for testing.
>

No need to dig it up - that's now been incorporated into the 
main distribution (which I swear, I should get out in the next 
couple days) as a "pass-through" Makefile.PL.

  -Ken