MakeMaker 5.91_02 -> 5.92_01
[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / ExtUtils / MakeMaker.pm
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f6d6199c 1BEGIN {require 5.004;}
a0d0e21e 2
e05e23b1 3package ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
4
f582e489 5$VERSION = "5.92_01";
f6d6199c 6$Version_OK = "5.49"; # Makefiles older than $Version_OK will die
7 # (Will be checked from MakeMaker version 4.13 onwards)
f582e489 8($Revision = substr(q$Revision: 1.46 $, 10)) =~ s/\s+$//;
005c1a0e 9
8e07c86e 10require Exporter;
3b03c0f3 11use Config;
12use Carp ();
e05e23b1 13
14use vars qw(
f6d6199c 15 @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK
16 $ISA_TTY $Revision $VERSION $Verbose $Version_OK %Config
e0678a30 17 %Keep_after_flush %MM_Sections @Prepend_parent
5e9e174b 18 %Recognized_Att_Keys @Get_from_Config @MM_Sections @Overridable
19 @Parent $PACKNAME
f6d6199c 20 );
5e9e174b 21use strict;
005c1a0e 22
e05e23b1 23@ISA = qw(Exporter);
24@EXPORT = qw(&WriteMakefile &writeMakefile $Verbose &prompt);
f6d6199c 25@EXPORT_OK = qw($VERSION &neatvalue &mkbootstrap &mksymlists);
42793c05 26
f6d6199c 27# These will go away once the last of the Win32 & VMS specific code is
28# purged.
5e9e174b 29my $Is_VMS = $^O eq 'VMS';
5e9e174b 30my $Is_Win32 = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
3b03c0f3 31
9ab29e2b 32full_setup();
864a5fa8 33
f6d6199c 34require ExtUtils::MM; # Things like CPAN assume loading ExtUtils::MakeMaker
35 # will give them MM.
e05e23b1 36
45bc4d3a 37require ExtUtils::MY; # XXX pre-5.8 versions of ExtUtils::Embed expect
38 # loading ExtUtils::MakeMaker will give them MY.
39 # This will go when Embed is it's own CPAN module.
40
f1387719 41
3b03c0f3 42sub WriteMakefile {
43 Carp::croak "WriteMakefile: Need even number of args" if @_ % 2;
f1387719 44
f6d6199c 45 require ExtUtils::MY;
3b03c0f3 46 my %att = @_;
e0678a30 47 my $mm = MM->new(\%att);
48 $mm->flush;
49
50 return $mm;
3b03c0f3 51}
52
f1387719 53sub prompt ($;$) {
3b03c0f3 54 my($mess,$def)=@_;
f6d6199c 55 $ISA_TTY = -t STDIN && (-t STDOUT || !(-f STDOUT || -c STDOUT)) ; # Pipe?
e0678a30 56 Carp::confess("prompt function called without an argument")
57 unless defined $mess;
f1387719 58 my $dispdef = defined $def ? "[$def] " : " ";
59 $def = defined $def ? $def : "";
3b03c0f3 60 my $ans;
13bc20ff 61 local $|=1;
f6d6199c 62 local $\;
13bc20ff 63 print "$mess $dispdef";
9d05ba64 64 if ($ISA_TTY && !$ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT}) {
f6d6199c 65 $ans = <STDIN>;
66 if( defined $ans ) {
67 chomp $ans;
68 }
69 else { # user hit ctrl-D
70 print "\n";
71 }
72 }
73 else {
74 print "$def\n";
3b03c0f3 75 }
f6d6199c 76 return (!defined $ans || $ans eq '') ? $def : $ans;
3b03c0f3 77}
78
e05e23b1 79sub eval_in_subdirs {
80 my($self) = @_;
a8112c7f 81 use Cwd qw(cwd abs_path);
f582e489 82 my $pwd = cwd() || die "Can't figure out your cwd!";
83
3593a55e 84 local @INC = map eval {abs_path($_) if -e} || $_, @INC;
f6d6199c 85 push @INC, '.'; # '.' has to always be at the end of @INC
e05e23b1 86
5e9e174b 87 foreach my $dir (@{$self->{DIR}}){
f6d6199c 88 my($abs) = $self->catdir($pwd,$dir);
89 $self->eval_in_x($abs);
e05e23b1 90 }
e05e23b1 91 chdir $pwd;
864a5fa8 92}
42793c05 93
e05e23b1 94sub eval_in_x {
95 my($self,$dir) = @_;
6626a13a 96 chdir $dir or Carp::carp("Couldn't change to directory $dir: $!");
5e9e174b 97
f6d6199c 98 {
99 package main;
100 do './Makefile.PL';
101 };
f1387719 102 if ($@) {
f6d6199c 103# if ($@ =~ /prerequisites/) {
104# die "MakeMaker WARNING: $@";
105# } else {
106# warn "WARNING from evaluation of $dir/Makefile.PL: $@";
107# }
45bc4d3a 108 die "ERROR from evaluation of $dir/Makefile.PL: $@";
f1387719 109 }
e05e23b1 110}
111
e05e23b1 112sub full_setup {
113 $Verbose ||= 0;
3b03c0f3 114
f1387719 115 # package name for the classes into which the first object will be blessed
3b03c0f3 116 $PACKNAME = "PACK000";
117
5e9e174b 118 my @attrib_help = qw/
3b03c0f3 119
762efda7 120 AUTHOR ABSTRACT ABSTRACT_FROM BINARY_LOCATION
121 C CAPI CCFLAGS CONFIG CONFIGURE DEFINE DIR DISTNAME DL_FUNCS DL_VARS
75e2e551 122 EXCLUDE_EXT EXE_FILES FIRST_MAKEFILE
123 FULLPERL FULLPERLRUN FULLPERLRUNINST
124 FUNCLIST H IMPORTS
45bc4d3a 125 INST_ARCHLIB INST_SCRIPT INST_BIN INST_LIB INST_MAN1DIR INST_MAN3DIR
5c161494 126 INSTALLDIRS
127 PREFIX SITEPREFIX VENDORPREFIX
128 INSTALLPRIVLIB INSTALLSITELIB INSTALLVENDORLIB
129 INSTALLARCHLIB INSTALLSITEARCH INSTALLVENDORARCH
45bc4d3a 130 INSTALLBIN INSTALLSITEBIN INSTALLVENDORBIN
131 INSTALLMAN1DIR INSTALLMAN3DIR
132 INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR
133 INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR
134 INSTALLSCRIPT
5c161494 135 PERL_LIB PERL_ARCHLIB
136 SITELIBEXP SITEARCHEXP
137 INC INCLUDE_EXT LDFROM LIB LIBPERL_A LIBS
f1387719 138 LINKTYPE MAKEAPERL MAKEFILE MAN1PODS MAN3PODS MAP_TARGET MYEXTLIB
ee13e175 139 PERL_MALLOC_OK
762efda7 140 NAME NEEDS_LINKING NOECHO NORECURS NO_VC OBJECT OPTIMIZE PERL PERLMAINCC
5c161494 141 PERLRUN PERLRUNINST PERL_CORE
142 PERL_SRC PERM_RW PERM_RWX
131aa089 143 PL_FILES PM PM_FILTER PMLIBDIRS POLLUTE PPM_INSTALL_EXEC
5c161494 144 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT PREREQ_FATAL PREREQ_PM PREREQ_PRINT PRINT_PREREQ
e0678a30 145 SKIP TYPEMAPS VERSION VERSION_FROM XS XSOPT XSPROTOARG
f1387719 146 XS_VERSION clean depend dist dynamic_lib linkext macro realclean
762efda7 147 tool_autosplit
084592ab 148 MACPERL_SRC MACPERL_LIB MACLIBS_68K MACLIBS_PPC MACLIBS_SC MACLIBS_MRC
149 MACLIBS_ALL_68K MACLIBS_ALL_PPC MACLIBS_SHARED
f6d6199c 150 /;
3b03c0f3 151
875fa795 152 # IMPORTS is used under OS/2 and Win32
f1387719 153
154 # @Overridable is close to @MM_Sections but not identical. The
155 # order is important. Many subroutines declare macros. These
156 # depend on each other. Let's try to collect the macros up front,
157 # then pasthru, then the rules.
158
159 # MM_Sections are the sections we have to call explicitly
160 # in Overridable we have subroutines that are used indirectly
3b03c0f3 161
e05e23b1 162
163 @MM_Sections =
f6d6199c 164 qw(
3b03c0f3 165
f1387719 166 post_initialize const_config constants tool_autosplit tool_xsubpp
167 tools_other dist macro depend cflags const_loadlibs const_cccmd
168 post_constants
169
170 pasthru
171
b86a2fa7 172 c_o xs_c xs_o top_targets linkext dlsyms dynamic dynamic_bs
f6d6199c 173 dynamic_lib static static_lib manifypods processPL
cae6c631 174 installbin subdirs
f1387719 175 clean realclean dist_basics dist_core dist_dir dist_test dist_ci
8f993c78 176 install force perldepend makefile staticmake test ppd
3b03c0f3 177
f6d6199c 178 ); # loses section ordering
e05e23b1 179
3b03c0f3 180 @Overridable = @MM_Sections;
f1387719 181 push @Overridable, qw[
182
2366100d 183 dir_target libscan makeaperl needs_linking perm_rw perm_rwx
75e2e551 184 subdir_x test_via_harness test_via_script init_PERL
f6d6199c 185 ];
3b03c0f3 186
f1387719 187 push @MM_Sections, qw[
3b03c0f3 188
f1387719 189 pm_to_blib selfdocument
190
f6d6199c 191 ];
f1387719 192
193 # Postamble needs to be the last that was always the case
194 push @MM_Sections, "postamble";
195 push @Overridable, "postamble";
e05e23b1 196
197 # All sections are valid keys.
3b03c0f3 198 @Recognized_Att_Keys{@MM_Sections} = (1) x @MM_Sections;
e05e23b1 199
200 # we will use all these variables in the Makefile
201 @Get_from_Config =
f6d6199c 202 qw(
203 ar cc cccdlflags ccdlflags dlext dlsrc ld lddlflags ldflags libc
204 lib_ext obj_ext osname osvers ranlib sitelibexp sitearchexp so
205 exe_ext full_ar
206 );
e05e23b1 207
5e9e174b 208 foreach my $item (@attrib_help){
f6d6199c 209 $Recognized_Att_Keys{$item} = 1;
e05e23b1 210 }
5e9e174b 211 foreach my $item (@Get_from_Config) {
f6d6199c 212 $Recognized_Att_Keys{uc $item} = $Config{$item};
213 print "Attribute '\U$item\E' => '$Config{$item}'\n"
214 if ($Verbose >= 2);
e05e23b1 215 }
216
217 #
3b03c0f3 218 # When we eval a Makefile.PL in a subdirectory, that one will ask
219 # us (the parent) for the values and will prepend "..", so that
220 # all files to be installed end up below OUR ./blib
e05e23b1 221 #
e0678a30 222 @Prepend_parent = qw(
223 INST_BIN INST_LIB INST_ARCHLIB INST_SCRIPT
f6d6199c 224 MAP_TARGET INST_MAN1DIR INST_MAN3DIR PERL_SRC
225 PERL FULLPERL
226 );
e05e23b1 227
3b03c0f3 228 my @keep = qw/
f6d6199c 229 NEEDS_LINKING HAS_LINK_CODE
230 /;
3b03c0f3 231 @Keep_after_flush{@keep} = (1) x @keep;
e05e23b1 232}
42793c05 233
8e07c86e 234sub writeMakefile {
235 die <<END;
232e078e 236
8e07c86e 237The extension you are trying to build apparently is rather old and
238most probably outdated. We detect that from the fact, that a
239subroutine "writeMakefile" is called, and this subroutine is not
240supported anymore since about October 1994.
40000a8c 241
4633a7c4 242Please contact the author or look into CPAN (details about CPAN can be
243found in the FAQ and at http:/www.perl.com) for a more recent version
244of the extension. If you're really desperate, you can try to change
245the subroutine name from writeMakefile to WriteMakefile and rerun
246'perl Makefile.PL', but you're most probably left alone, when you do
247so.
42793c05 248
8e07c86e 249The MakeMaker team
1aef975c 250
42793c05 251END
8e07c86e 252}
42793c05 253
f6d6199c 254sub new {
8e07c86e 255 my($class,$self) = @_;
256 my($key);
42793c05 257
88d69b28 258 if ("@ARGV" =~ /\bPREREQ_PRINT\b/) {
f6d6199c 259 require Data::Dumper;
88d69b28 260 print Data::Dumper->Dump([$self->{PREREQ_PM}], [qw(PREREQ_PM)]);
f6d6199c 261 }
88d69b28 262
263 # PRINT_PREREQ is RedHatism.
264 if ("@ARGV" =~ /\bPRINT_PREREQ\b/) {
f6d6199c 265 print join(" ", map { "perl($_)>=$self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$_} " } sort keys %{$self->{PREREQ_PM}}), "\n";
266 exit 0;
88d69b28 267 }
268
e05e23b1 269 print STDOUT "MakeMaker (v$VERSION)\n" if $Verbose;
8e07c86e 270 if (-f "MANIFEST" && ! -f "Makefile"){
f6d6199c 271 check_manifest();
1aef975c 272 }
42793c05 273
8e07c86e 274 $self = {} unless (defined $self);
005c1a0e 275
864a5fa8 276 check_hints($self);
4633a7c4 277
c3be8c6e 278 my %configure_att; # record &{$self->{CONFIGURE}} attributes
8e07c86e 279 my(%initial_att) = %$self; # record initial attributes
005c1a0e 280
a4260cbc 281 my(%unsatisfied) = ();
5e9e174b 282 foreach my $prereq (sort keys %{$self->{PREREQ_PM}}) {
f6d6199c 283 eval "require $prereq";
284
e0678a30 285 my $pr_version = $prereq->VERSION || 0;
286
f6d6199c 287 if ($@) {
288 warn sprintf "Warning: prerequisite %s %s not found.\n",
289 $prereq, $self->{PREREQ_PM}{$prereq}
290 unless $self->{PREREQ_FATAL};
291 $unsatisfied{$prereq} = 'not installed';
e0678a30 292 } elsif ($pr_version < $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} ){
45bc4d3a 293 warn sprintf "Warning: prerequisite %s %s not found. We have %s.\n",
f6d6199c 294 $prereq, $self->{PREREQ_PM}{$prereq},
e0678a30 295 ($pr_version || 'unknown version')
f6d6199c 296 unless $self->{PREREQ_FATAL};
297 $unsatisfied{$prereq} = $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} ?
298 $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} : 'unknown version' ;
299 }
f1387719 300 }
a4260cbc 301 if (%unsatisfied && $self->{PREREQ_FATAL}){
f6d6199c 302 my $failedprereqs = join ', ', map {"$_ $unsatisfied{$_}"}
303 keys %unsatisfied;
304 die qq{MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found ($failedprereqs)\n
305 Please install these modules first and rerun 'perl Makefile.PL'.\n};
a4260cbc 306 }
f1387719 307
8e07c86e 308 if (defined $self->{CONFIGURE}) {
f6d6199c 309 if (ref $self->{CONFIGURE} eq 'CODE') {
310 %configure_att = %{&{$self->{CONFIGURE}}};
311 $self = { %$self, %configure_att };
312 } else {
313 Carp::croak "Attribute 'CONFIGURE' to WriteMakefile() not a code reference\n";
314 }
005c1a0e 315 }
a0d0e21e 316
8e07c86e 317 # This is for old Makefiles written pre 5.00, will go away
318 if ( Carp::longmess("") =~ /runsubdirpl/s ){
f6d6199c 319 Carp::carp("WARNING: Please rerun 'perl Makefile.PL' to regenerate your Makefiles\n");
8e07c86e 320 }
5d94fbed 321
ccd13d1e 322 my $newclass = ++$PACKNAME;
f6d6199c 323 local @Parent = @Parent; # Protect against non-local exits
8e07c86e 324 {
f6d6199c 325 no strict 'refs';
326 print "Blessing Object into class [$newclass]\n" if $Verbose>=2;
327 mv_all_methods("MY",$newclass);
328 bless $self, $newclass;
329 push @Parent, $self;
330 require ExtUtils::MY;
331 @{"$newclass\:\:ISA"} = 'MM';
8e07c86e 332 }
5d94fbed 333
e05e23b1 334 if (defined $Parent[-2]){
f6d6199c 335 $self->{PARENT} = $Parent[-2];
336 my $key;
e0678a30 337 for $key (@Prepend_parent) {
f6d6199c 338 next unless defined $self->{PARENT}{$key};
339 $self->{$key} = $self->{PARENT}{$key};
340 unless ($^O eq 'VMS' && $key =~ /PERL$/) {
341 $self->{$key} = $self->catdir("..",$self->{$key})
342 unless $self->file_name_is_absolute($self->{$key});
343 } else {
344 # PERL or FULLPERL will be a command verb or even a
345 # command with an argument instead of a full file
346 # specification under VMS. So, don't turn the command
347 # into a filespec, but do add a level to the path of
348 # the argument if not already absolute.
349 my @cmd = split /\s+/, $self->{$key};
350 $cmd[1] = $self->catfile('[-]',$cmd[1])
351 unless (@cmd < 2) || $self->file_name_is_absolute($cmd[1]);
352 $self->{$key} = join(' ', @cmd);
353 }
354 }
355 if ($self->{PARENT}) {
356 $self->{PARENT}->{CHILDREN}->{$newclass} = $self;
357 foreach my $opt (qw(POLLUTE PERL_CORE)) {
358 if (exists $self->{PARENT}->{$opt}
359 and not exists $self->{$opt})
360 {
361 # inherit, but only if already unspecified
362 $self->{$opt} = $self->{PARENT}->{$opt};
363 }
364 }
365 }
366 my @fm = grep /^FIRST_MAKEFILE=/, @ARGV;
367 parse_args($self,@fm) if @fm;
8e07c86e 368 } else {
f6d6199c 369 parse_args($self,split(' ', $ENV{PERL_MM_OPT} || ''),@ARGV);
8e07c86e 370 }
a0d0e21e 371
8e07c86e 372 $self->{NAME} ||= $self->guess_name;
a0d0e21e 373
8e07c86e 374 ($self->{NAME_SYM} = $self->{NAME}) =~ s/\W+/_/g;
a0d0e21e 375
8e07c86e 376 $self->init_main();
377
0d8023a2 378 if (! $self->{PERL_SRC} ) {
f6d6199c 379 require VMS::Filespec if $Is_VMS;
380 my($pthinks) = $self->canonpath($INC{'Config.pm'});
381 my($cthinks) = $self->catfile($Config{'archlibexp'},'Config.pm');
382 $pthinks = VMS::Filespec::vmsify($pthinks) if $Is_VMS;
383 if ($pthinks ne $cthinks &&
384 !($Is_Win32 and lc($pthinks) eq lc($cthinks))) {
3e3baf6d 385 print "Have $pthinks expected $cthinks\n";
f6d6199c 386 if ($Is_Win32) {
387 $pthinks =~ s![/\\]Config\.pm$!!i; $pthinks =~ s!.*[/\\]!!;
388 }
389 else {
390 $pthinks =~ s!/Config\.pm$!!; $pthinks =~ s!.*/!!;
391 }
392 print STDOUT <<END unless $self->{UNINSTALLED_PERL};
393Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the
394architecture they are running on.
8e07c86e 395Perl thinks: [$pthinks]
e05e23b1 396Config says: [$Config{archname}]
f6d6199c 397This may or may not cause problems. Please check your installation of perl
398if you have problems building this extension.
005c1a0e 399END
f6d6199c 400 }
005c1a0e 401 }
402
8e07c86e 403 $self->init_dirscan();
404 $self->init_others();
e0678a30 405 $self->init_PERM();
6071deed 406 my($argv) = neatvalue(\@ARGV);
407 $argv =~ s/^\[/(/;
408 $argv =~ s/\]$/)/;
75f92628 409
8e07c86e 410 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, <<END;
411# This Makefile is for the $self->{NAME} extension to perl.
412#
e05e23b1 413# It was generated automatically by MakeMaker version
414# $VERSION (Revision: $Revision) from the contents of
415# Makefile.PL. Don't edit this file, edit Makefile.PL instead.
8e07c86e 416#
f6d6199c 417# ANY CHANGES MADE HERE WILL BE LOST!
8e07c86e 418#
6071deed 419# MakeMaker ARGV: $argv
420#
8e07c86e 421# MakeMaker Parameters:
422END
a0d0e21e 423
5e9e174b 424 foreach my $key (sort keys %initial_att){
f6d6199c 425 my($v) = neatvalue($initial_att{$key});
426 $v =~ s/(CODE|HASH|ARRAY|SCALAR)\([\dxa-f]+\)/$1\(...\)/;
427 $v =~ tr/\n/ /s;
428 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# $key => $v";
42793c05 429 }
c3be8c6e 430 undef %initial_att; # free memory
431
432 if (defined $self->{CONFIGURE}) {
433 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, <<END;
434
435# MakeMaker 'CONFIGURE' Parameters:
436END
437 if (scalar(keys %configure_att) > 0) {
5e9e174b 438 foreach my $key (sort keys %configure_att){
c3be8c6e 439 my($v) = neatvalue($configure_att{$key});
440 $v =~ s/(CODE|HASH|ARRAY|SCALAR)\([\dxa-f]+\)/$1\(...\)/;
441 $v =~ tr/\n/ /s;
442 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# $key => $v";
443 }
444 }
445 else
446 {
447 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# no values returned";
448 }
449 undef %configure_att; # free memory
450 }
a0d0e21e 451
8e07c86e 452 # turn the SKIP array into a SKIPHASH hash
453 my (%skip,$skip);
454 for $skip (@{$self->{SKIP} || []}) {
f6d6199c 455 $self->{SKIPHASH}{$skip} = 1;
8e07c86e 456 }
3b03c0f3 457 delete $self->{SKIP}; # free memory
458
459 if ($self->{PARENT}) {
f6d6199c 460 for (qw/install dist dist_basics dist_core dist_dir dist_test dist_ci/) {
461 $self->{SKIPHASH}{$_} = 1;
462 }
3b03c0f3 463 }
42793c05 464
8e07c86e 465 # We run all the subdirectories now. They don't have much to query
466 # from the parent, but the parent has to query them: if they need linking!
8e07c86e 467 unless ($self->{NORECURS}) {
f6d6199c 468 $self->eval_in_subdirs if @{$self->{DIR}};
42793c05 469 }
a0d0e21e 470
5e9e174b 471 foreach my $section ( @MM_Sections ){
f6d6199c 472 print "Processing Makefile '$section' section\n" if ($Verbose >= 2);
473 my($skipit) = $self->skipcheck($section);
474 if ($skipit){
475 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "\n# --- MakeMaker $section section $skipit.";
476 } else {
477 my(%a) = %{$self->{$section} || {}};
478 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "\n# --- MakeMaker $section section:";
479 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# " . join ", ", %a if $Verbose && %a;
480 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, $self->nicetext($self->$section( %a ));
481 }
232e078e 482 }
8e07c86e 483
e05e23b1 484 push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "\n# End.";
8e07c86e 485
e05e23b1 486 $self;
232e078e 487}
488
1b171b8d 489sub WriteEmptyMakefile {
a8112c7f 490 Carp::croak "WriteEmptyMakefile: Need even number of args" if @_ % 2;
a8112c7f 491
492 my %att = @_;
493 my $self = MM->new(\%att);
494 if (-f "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old") {
495 chmod 0666, "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old";
496 unlink "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old" or warn "unlink $self->{MAKEFILE}.old: $!";
497 }
498 rename $self->{MAKEFILE}, "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old"
499 or warn "rename $self->{MAKEFILE} $self->{MAKEFILE}.old: $!"
500 if -f $self->{MAKEFILE};
501 open MF, '>', $self->{MAKEFILE} or die "open $self->{MAKEFILE} for write: $!";
502 print MF <<'EOP';
1b171b8d 503all:
504
505clean:
506
507install:
508
509makemakerdflt:
510
511test:
512
513EOP
a8112c7f 514 close MF or die "close $self->{MAKEFILE} for write: $!";
1b171b8d 515}
516
e05e23b1 517sub check_manifest {
518 print STDOUT "Checking if your kit is complete...\n";
3b03c0f3 519 require ExtUtils::Manifest;
5e9e174b 520 # avoid warning
521 $ExtUtils::Manifest::Quiet = $ExtUtils::Manifest::Quiet = 1;
522 my(@missed) = ExtUtils::Manifest::manicheck();
523 if (@missed) {
f6d6199c 524 print STDOUT "Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:\n";
525 print "\t", join "\n\t", @missed;
526 print STDOUT "\n";
527 print STDOUT "Please inform the author.\n";
8e07c86e 528 } else {
f6d6199c 529 print STDOUT "Looks good\n";
8e07c86e 530 }
8e07c86e 531}
532
e05e23b1 533sub parse_args{
534 my($self, @args) = @_;
5e9e174b 535 foreach (@args) {
f6d6199c 536 unless (m/(.*?)=(.*)/) {
537 help(),exit 1 if m/^help$/;
538 ++$Verbose if m/^verb/;
539 next;
540 }
541 my($name, $value) = ($1, $2);
542 if ($value =~ m/^~(\w+)?/) { # tilde with optional username
543 $value =~ s [^~(\w*)]
544 [$1 ?
545 ((getpwnam($1))[7] || "~$1") :
546 (getpwuid($>))[7]
547 ]ex;
548 }
549 $self->{uc($name)} = $value;
8e07c86e 550 }
8e07c86e 551
e05e23b1 552 # catch old-style 'potential_libs' and inform user how to 'upgrade'
553 if (defined $self->{potential_libs}){
f6d6199c 554 my($msg)="'potential_libs' => '$self->{potential_libs}' should be";
555 if ($self->{potential_libs}){
556 print STDOUT "$msg changed to:\n\t'LIBS' => ['$self->{potential_libs}']\n";
557 } else {
558 print STDOUT "$msg deleted.\n";
559 }
560 $self->{LIBS} = [$self->{potential_libs}];
561 delete $self->{potential_libs};
8e07c86e 562 }
e05e23b1 563 # catch old-style 'ARMAYBE' and inform user how to 'upgrade'
564 if (defined $self->{ARMAYBE}){
f6d6199c 565 my($armaybe) = $self->{ARMAYBE};
566 print STDOUT "ARMAYBE => '$armaybe' should be changed to:\n",
567 "\t'dynamic_lib' => {ARMAYBE => '$armaybe'}\n";
568 my(%dl) = %{$self->{dynamic_lib} || {}};
569 $self->{dynamic_lib} = { %dl, ARMAYBE => $armaybe};
570 delete $self->{ARMAYBE};
8e07c86e 571 }
e05e23b1 572 if (defined $self->{LDTARGET}){
f6d6199c 573 print STDOUT "LDTARGET should be changed to LDFROM\n";
574 $self->{LDFROM} = $self->{LDTARGET};
575 delete $self->{LDTARGET};
8e07c86e 576 }
e05e23b1 577 # Turn a DIR argument on the command line into an array
578 if (defined $self->{DIR} && ref \$self->{DIR} eq 'SCALAR') {
f6d6199c 579 # So they can choose from the command line, which extensions they want
580 # the grep enables them to have some colons too much in case they
581 # have to build a list with the shell
582 $self->{DIR} = [grep $_, split ":", $self->{DIR}];
8e07c86e 583 }
f1387719 584 # Turn a INCLUDE_EXT argument on the command line into an array
585 if (defined $self->{INCLUDE_EXT} && ref \$self->{INCLUDE_EXT} eq 'SCALAR') {
f6d6199c 586 $self->{INCLUDE_EXT} = [grep $_, split '\s+', $self->{INCLUDE_EXT}];
f1387719 587 }
588 # Turn a EXCLUDE_EXT argument on the command line into an array
589 if (defined $self->{EXCLUDE_EXT} && ref \$self->{EXCLUDE_EXT} eq 'SCALAR') {
f6d6199c 590 $self->{EXCLUDE_EXT} = [grep $_, split '\s+', $self->{EXCLUDE_EXT}];
f1387719 591 }
5e9e174b 592
593 foreach my $mmkey (sort keys %$self){
f6d6199c 594 print STDOUT " $mmkey => ", neatvalue($self->{$mmkey}), "\n" if $Verbose;
595 print STDOUT "'$mmkey' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.\n"
596 unless exists $Recognized_Att_Keys{$mmkey};
e05e23b1 597 }
f1387719 598 $| = 1 if $Verbose;
e05e23b1 599}
8e07c86e 600
e05e23b1 601sub check_hints {
602 my($self) = @_;
603 # We allow extension-specific hints files.
864a5fa8 604
e05e23b1 605 return unless -d "hints";
8e07c86e 606
e05e23b1 607 # First we look for the best hintsfile we have
f1387719 608 my($hint)="${^O}_$Config{osvers}";
e05e23b1 609 $hint =~ s/\./_/g;
610 $hint =~ s/_$//;
611 return unless $hint;
fed7345c 612
e05e23b1 613 # Also try without trailing minor version numbers.
614 while (1) {
f6d6199c 615 last if -f "hints/$hint.pl"; # found
e05e23b1 616 } continue {
f6d6199c 617 last unless $hint =~ s/_[^_]*$//; # nothing to cut off
e05e23b1 618 }
6626a13a 619 my $hint_file = "hints/$hint.pl";
620
621 return unless -f $hint_file; # really there
fed7345c 622
f6d6199c 623 _run_hintfile($self, $hint_file);
624}
625
626sub _run_hintfile {
627 our $self;
628 local($self) = shift; # make $self available to the hint file.
629 my($hint_file) = shift;
630
75e2e551 631 local $@;
39234879 632 print STDERR "Processing hints file $hint_file\n";
75e2e551 633 my $ret = do "./$hint_file";
634 unless( defined $ret ) {
635 print STDERR $@ if $@;
636 }
e05e23b1 637}
8e07c86e 638
e05e23b1 639sub mv_all_methods {
640 my($from,$to) = @_;
5e9e174b 641 no strict 'refs';
e05e23b1 642 my($symtab) = \%{"${from}::"};
fed7345c 643
e05e23b1 644 # Here you see the *current* list of methods that are overridable
645 # from Makefile.PL via MY:: subroutines. As of VERSION 5.07 I'm
646 # still trying to reduce the list to some reasonable minimum --
647 # because I want to make it easier for the user. A.K.
40000a8c 648
e0678a30 649 no warnings 'redefine';
5e9e174b 650 foreach my $method (@Overridable) {
fed7345c 651
f6d6199c 652 # We cannot say "next" here. Nick might call MY->makeaperl
653 # which isn't defined right now
654
655 # Above statement was written at 4.23 time when Tk-b8 was
656 # around. As Tk-b9 only builds with 5.002something and MM 5 is
657 # standard, we try to enable the next line again. It was
658 # commented out until MM 5.23
659
660 next unless defined &{"${from}::$method"};
fed7345c 661
f6d6199c 662 *{"${to}::$method"} = \&{"${from}::$method"};
3b03c0f3 663
f6d6199c 664 # delete would do, if we were sure, nobody ever called
665 # MY->makeaperl directly
fed7345c 666
f6d6199c 667 # delete $symtab->{$method};
8e07c86e 668
f6d6199c 669 # If we delete a method, then it will be undefined and cannot
670 # be called. But as long as we have Makefile.PLs that rely on
671 # %MY:: being intact, we have to fill the hole with an
672 # inheriting method:
fed7345c 673
f6d6199c 674 eval "package MY; sub $method { shift->SUPER::$method(\@_); }";
5d94fbed 675 }
676
e05e23b1 677 # We have to clean out %INC also, because the current directory is
678 # changed frequently and Graham Barr prefers to get his version
679 # out of a History.pl file which is "required" so woudn't get
680 # loaded again in another extension requiring a History.pl
a0d0e21e 681
f1387719 682 # With perl5.002_01 the deletion of entries in %INC caused Tk-b11
683 # to core dump in the middle of a require statement. The required
684 # file was Tk/MMutil.pm. The consequence is, we have to be
685 # extremely careful when we try to give perl a reason to reload a
686 # library with same name. The workaround prefers to drop nothing
687 # from %INC and teach the writers not to use such libraries.
688
689# my $inc;
690# foreach $inc (keys %INC) {
f6d6199c 691# #warn "***$inc*** deleted";
692# delete $INC{$inc};
f1387719 693# }
8e07c86e 694}
695
3b03c0f3 696sub skipcheck {
8e07c86e 697 my($self) = shift;
e05e23b1 698 my($section) = @_;
699 if ($section eq 'dynamic') {
f6d6199c 700 print STDOUT "Warning (non-fatal): Target 'dynamic' depends on targets ",
701 "in skipped section 'dynamic_bs'\n"
e05e23b1 702 if $self->{SKIPHASH}{dynamic_bs} && $Verbose;
703 print STDOUT "Warning (non-fatal): Target 'dynamic' depends on targets ",
f6d6199c 704 "in skipped section 'dynamic_lib'\n"
e05e23b1 705 if $self->{SKIPHASH}{dynamic_lib} && $Verbose;
8e07c86e 706 }
e05e23b1 707 if ($section eq 'dynamic_lib') {
708 print STDOUT "Warning (non-fatal): Target '\$(INST_DYNAMIC)' depends on ",
f6d6199c 709 "targets in skipped section 'dynamic_bs'\n"
e05e23b1 710 if $self->{SKIPHASH}{dynamic_bs} && $Verbose;
711 }
712 if ($section eq 'static') {
713 print STDOUT "Warning (non-fatal): Target 'static' depends on targets ",
f6d6199c 714 "in skipped section 'static_lib'\n"
e05e23b1 715 if $self->{SKIPHASH}{static_lib} && $Verbose;
8e07c86e 716 }
e05e23b1 717 return 'skipped' if $self->{SKIPHASH}{$section};
718 return '';
8e07c86e 719}
720
e05e23b1 721sub flush {
722 my $self = shift;
723 my($chunk);
3b03c0f3 724 local *FH;
e05e23b1 725 print STDOUT "Writing $self->{MAKEFILE} for $self->{NAME}\n";
8e07c86e 726
e05e23b1 727 unlink($self->{MAKEFILE}, "MakeMaker.tmp", $Is_VMS ? 'Descrip.MMS' : '');
3b03c0f3 728 open(FH,">MakeMaker.tmp") or die "Unable to open MakeMaker.tmp: $!";
8e07c86e 729
e05e23b1 730 for $chunk (@{$self->{RESULT}}) {
f6d6199c 731 print FH "$chunk\n";
8e07c86e 732 }
e05e23b1 733
3b03c0f3 734 close FH;
e05e23b1 735 my($finalname) = $self->{MAKEFILE};
736 rename("MakeMaker.tmp", $finalname);
737 chmod 0644, $finalname unless $Is_VMS;
3b03c0f3 738
e0678a30 739 if ($self->{PARENT} && !$self->{_KEEP_AFTER_FLUSH}) {
f6d6199c 740 foreach (keys %$self) { # safe memory
741 delete $self->{$_} unless $Keep_after_flush{$_};
742 }
3b03c0f3 743 }
744
e05e23b1 745 system("$Config::Config{eunicefix} $finalname") unless $Config::Config{eunicefix} eq ":";
40000a8c 746}
747
e05e23b1 748# The following mkbootstrap() is only for installations that are calling
749# the pre-4.1 mkbootstrap() from their old Makefiles. This MakeMaker
750# writes Makefiles, that use ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap directly.
751sub mkbootstrap {
752 die <<END;
753!!! Your Makefile has been built such a long time ago, !!!
754!!! that is unlikely to work with current MakeMaker. !!!
755!!! Please rebuild your Makefile !!!
756END
8e07c86e 757}
005c1a0e 758
e05e23b1 759# Ditto for mksymlists() as of MakeMaker 5.17
760sub mksymlists {
761 die <<END;
762!!! Your Makefile has been built such a long time ago, !!!
763!!! that is unlikely to work with current MakeMaker. !!!
764!!! Please rebuild your Makefile !!!
765END
4633a7c4 766}
767
e05e23b1 768sub neatvalue {
769 my($v) = @_;
770 return "undef" unless defined $v;
771 my($t) = ref $v;
772 return "q[$v]" unless $t;
773 if ($t eq 'ARRAY') {
f6d6199c 774 my(@m, @neat);
775 push @m, "[";
776 foreach my $elem (@$v) {
777 push @neat, "q[$elem]";
778 }
779 push @m, join ", ", @neat;
780 push @m, "]";
781 return join "", @m;
e05e23b1 782 }
783 return "$v" unless $t eq 'HASH';
784 my(@m, $key, $val);
3b03c0f3 785 while (($key,$val) = each %$v){
f6d6199c 786 last unless defined $key; # cautious programming in case (undef,undef) is true
787 push(@m,"$key=>".neatvalue($val)) ;
3b03c0f3 788 }
e05e23b1 789 return "{ ".join(', ',@m)." }";
4e68a208 790}
791
e05e23b1 792sub selfdocument {
793 my($self) = @_;
794 my(@m);
795 if ($Verbose){
f6d6199c 796 push @m, "\n# Full list of MakeMaker attribute values:";
797 foreach my $key (sort keys %$self){
798 next if $key eq 'RESULT' || $key =~ /^[A-Z][a-z]/;
799 my($v) = neatvalue($self->{$key});
800 $v =~ s/(CODE|HASH|ARRAY|SCALAR)\([\dxa-f]+\)/$1\(...\)/;
801 $v =~ tr/\n/ /s;
802 push @m, "# $key => $v";
803 }
e05e23b1 804 }
805 join "\n", @m;
806}
4e68a208 807
3b03c0f3 8081;
809
810__END__
005c1a0e 811
812=head1 NAME
813
814ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
815
816=head1 SYNOPSIS
817
e0678a30 818 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
005c1a0e 819
e0678a30 820 WriteMakefile( ATTRIBUTE => VALUE [, ...] );
8e07c86e 821
005c1a0e 822=head1 DESCRIPTION
823
824This utility is designed to write a Makefile for an extension module
825from a Makefile.PL. It is based on the Makefile.SH model provided by
826Andy Dougherty and the perl5-porters.
827
828It splits the task of generating the Makefile into several subroutines
829that can be individually overridden. Each subroutine returns the text
830it wishes to have written to the Makefile.
831
f1387719 832MakeMaker is object oriented. Each directory below the current
e0678a30 833directory that contains a Makefile.PL is treated as a separate
f1387719 834object. This makes it possible to write an unlimited number of
835Makefiles with a single invocation of WriteMakefile().
8e07c86e 836
f1387719 837=head2 How To Write A Makefile.PL
8e07c86e 838
bab2b58e 839The short answer is: Don't.
840
841 Always begin with h2xs.
842 Always begin with h2xs!
843 ALWAYS BEGIN WITH H2XS!
844
845even if you're not building around a header file, and even if you
846don't have an XS component.
847
848Run h2xs(1) before you start thinking about writing a module. For so
849called pm-only modules that consist of C<*.pm> files only, h2xs has
850the C<-X> switch. This will generate dummy files of all kinds that are
851useful for the module developer.
8e07c86e 852
f1387719 853The medium answer is:
8e07c86e 854
f1387719 855 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
856 WriteMakefile( NAME => "Foo::Bar" );
8e07c86e 857
bab2b58e 858The long answer is the rest of the manpage :-)
005c1a0e 859
860=head2 Default Makefile Behaviour
861
f1387719 862The generated Makefile enables the user of the extension to invoke
005c1a0e 863
864 perl Makefile.PL # optionally "perl Makefile.PL verbose"
865 make
8e07c86e 866 make test # optionally set TEST_VERBOSE=1
867 make install # See below
005c1a0e 868
869The Makefile to be produced may be altered by adding arguments of the
e05e23b1 870form C<KEY=VALUE>. E.g.
005c1a0e 871
e05e23b1 872 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/tmp/myperl5
005c1a0e 873
874Other interesting targets in the generated Makefile are
875
876 make config # to check if the Makefile is up-to-date
8e07c86e 877 make clean # delete local temp files (Makefile gets renamed)
878 make realclean # delete derived files (including ./blib)
e05e23b1 879 make ci # check in all the files in the MANIFEST file
005c1a0e 880 make dist # see below the Distribution Support section
881
e05e23b1 882=head2 make test
883
bab2b58e 884MakeMaker checks for the existence of a file named F<test.pl> in the
e05e23b1 885current directory and if it exists it adds commands to the test target
886of the generated Makefile that will execute the script with the proper
887set of perl C<-I> options.
888
889MakeMaker also checks for any files matching glob("t/*.t"). It will
890add commands to the test target of the generated Makefile that execute
45bc4d3a 891all matching files in alphabetical order via the L<Test::Harness>
892module with the C<-I> switches set correctly.
e05e23b1 893
bab2b58e 894=head2 make testdb
895
896A useful variation of the above is the target C<testdb>. It runs the
897test under the Perl debugger (see L<perldebug>). If the file
898F<test.pl> exists in the current directory, it is used for the test.
899
900If you want to debug some other testfile, set C<TEST_FILE> variable
901thusly:
902
903 make testdb TEST_FILE=t/mytest.t
904
905By default the debugger is called using C<-d> option to perl. If you
906want to specify some other option, set C<TESTDB_SW> variable:
907
908 make testdb TESTDB_SW=-Dx
909
e05e23b1 910=head2 make install
005c1a0e 911
8e07c86e 912make alone puts all relevant files into directories that are named by
f6d6199c 913the macros INST_LIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_SCRIPT, INST_MAN1DIR and
914INST_MAN3DIR. All these default to something below ./blib if you are
915I<not> building below the perl source directory. If you I<are>
916building below the perl source, INST_LIB and INST_ARCHLIB default to
917../../lib, and INST_SCRIPT is not defined.
005c1a0e 918
e05e23b1 919The I<install> target of the generated Makefile copies the files found
920below each of the INST_* directories to their INSTALL*
921counterparts. Which counterparts are chosen depends on the setting of
922INSTALLDIRS according to the following table:
005c1a0e 923
f6d6199c 924 INSTALLDIRS set to
5c161494 925 perl site vendor
e05e23b1 926
5c161494 927 PREFIX SITEPREFIX VENDORPREFIX
928 INST_ARCHLIB INSTALLARCHLIB INSTALLSITEARCH INSTALLVENDORARCH
929 INST_LIB INSTALLPRIVLIB INSTALLSITELIB INSTALLVENDORLIB
930 INST_BIN INSTALLBIN INSTALLSITEBIN INSTALLVENDORBIN
931 INST_SCRIPT INSTALLSCRIPT INSTALLSCRIPT INSTALLSCRIPT
932 INST_MAN1DIR INSTALLMAN1DIR INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR
933 INST_MAN3DIR INSTALLMAN3DIR INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR
005c1a0e 934
8e07c86e 935The INSTALL... macros in turn default to their %Config
936($Config{installprivlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, etc.) counterparts.
005c1a0e 937
3b03c0f3 938You can check the values of these variables on your system with
939
bab2b58e 940 perl '-V:install.*'
3b03c0f3 941
f1387719 942And to check the sequence in which the library directories are
943searched by perl, run
005c1a0e 944
f1387719 945 perl -le 'print join $/, @INC'
005c1a0e 946
005c1a0e 947
bab2b58e 948=head2 PREFIX and LIB attribute
949
950PREFIX and LIB can be used to set several INSTALL* attributes in one
951go. The quickest way to install a module in a non-standard place might
952be
953
f6d6199c 954 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~
005c1a0e 955
f6d6199c 956This will install all files in the module under your home directory,
957with man pages and libraries going into an appropriate place (usually
958~/man and ~/lib).
bab2b58e 959
960Another way to specify many INSTALL directories with a single
f6d6199c 961parameter is LIB.
005c1a0e 962
f6d6199c 963 perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib
005c1a0e 964
f6d6199c 965This will install the module's architecture-independent files into
966~/lib, the architecture-dependent files into ~/lib/$archname.
005c1a0e 967
bab2b58e 968Note, that in both cases the tilde expansion is done by MakeMaker, not
e35b8f9e 969by perl by default, nor by make.
970
f6d6199c 971Conflicts between parameters LIB, PREFIX and the various INSTALL*
972arguments are resolved so that:
e35b8f9e 973
974=over 4
975
976=item *
977
978setting LIB overrides any setting of INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLARCHLIB,
979INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEARCH (and they are not affected by PREFIX);
980
981=item *
982
983without LIB, setting PREFIX replaces the initial C<$Config{prefix}>
984part of those INSTALL* arguments, even if the latter are explicitly
985set (but are set to still start with C<$Config{prefix}>).
986
987=back
005c1a0e 988
f6d6199c 989If the user has superuser privileges, and is not working on AFS or
990relatives, then the defaults for INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLARCHLIB,
991INSTALLSCRIPT, etc. will be appropriate, and this incantation will be
992the best:
005c1a0e 993
e0678a30 994 perl Makefile.PL;
995 make;
996 make test
005c1a0e 997 make install
998
8e07c86e 999make install per default writes some documentation of what has been
e05e23b1 1000done into the file C<$(INSTALLARCHLIB)/perllocal.pod>. This feature
1001can be bypassed by calling make pure_install.
8e07c86e 1002
1003=head2 AFS users
1004
1005will have to specify the installation directories as these most
1006probably have changed since perl itself has been installed. They will
1007have to do this by calling
1008
e05e23b1 1009 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLSITELIB=/afs/here/today \
f6d6199c 1010 INSTALLSCRIPT=/afs/there/now INSTALLMAN3DIR=/afs/for/manpages
8e07c86e 1011 make
1012
e05e23b1 1013Be careful to repeat this procedure every time you recompile an
1014extension, unless you are sure the AFS installation directories are
1015still valid.
005c1a0e 1016
8e07c86e 1017=head2 Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
005c1a0e 1018
1019An extension that is built with the above steps is ready to use on
1020systems supporting dynamic loading. On systems that do not support
1021dynamic loading, any newly created extension has to be linked together
1022with the available resources. MakeMaker supports the linking process
1023by creating appropriate targets in the Makefile whenever an extension
1024is built. You can invoke the corresponding section of the makefile with
1025
1026 make perl
1027
1028That produces a new perl binary in the current directory with all
da7f727a 1029extensions linked in that can be found in INST_ARCHLIB, SITELIBEXP,
e05e23b1 1030and PERL_ARCHLIB. To do that, MakeMaker writes a new Makefile, on
1031UNIX, this is called Makefile.aperl (may be system dependent). If you
1032want to force the creation of a new perl, it is recommended, that you
1033delete this Makefile.aperl, so the directories are searched-through
1034for linkable libraries again.
005c1a0e 1035
1036The binary can be installed into the directory where perl normally
1037resides on your machine with
1038
1039 make inst_perl
1040
1041To produce a perl binary with a different name than C<perl>, either say
1042
1043 perl Makefile.PL MAP_TARGET=myperl
1044 make myperl
1045 make inst_perl
1046
1047or say
1048
1049 perl Makefile.PL
1050 make myperl MAP_TARGET=myperl
1051 make inst_perl MAP_TARGET=myperl
1052
1053In any case you will be prompted with the correct invocation of the
1054C<inst_perl> target that installs the new binary into INSTALLBIN.
1055
8e07c86e 1056make inst_perl per default writes some documentation of what has been
1057done into the file C<$(INSTALLARCHLIB)/perllocal.pod>. This
1058can be bypassed by calling make pure_inst_perl.
005c1a0e 1059
e05e23b1 1060Warning: the inst_perl: target will most probably overwrite your
1061existing perl binary. Use with care!
005c1a0e 1062
8e07c86e 1063Sometimes you might want to build a statically linked perl although
1064your system supports dynamic loading. In this case you may explicitly
1065set the linktype with the invocation of the Makefile.PL or make:
1066
1067 perl Makefile.PL LINKTYPE=static # recommended
1068
1069or
1070
1071 make LINKTYPE=static # works on most systems
1072
005c1a0e 1073=head2 Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
1074
1075MakeMaker needs to know, or to guess, where certain things are
e05e23b1 1076located. Especially INST_LIB and INST_ARCHLIB (where to put the files
1077during the make(1) run), PERL_LIB and PERL_ARCHLIB (where to read
1078existing modules from), and PERL_INC (header files and C<libperl*.*>).
005c1a0e 1079
1080Extensions may be built either using the contents of the perl source
e05e23b1 1081directory tree or from the installed perl library. The recommended way
1082is to build extensions after you have run 'make install' on perl
1083itself. You can do that in any directory on your hard disk that is not
1084below the perl source tree. The support for extensions below the ext
1085directory of the perl distribution is only good for the standard
1086extensions that come with perl.
005c1a0e 1087
1088If an extension is being built below the C<ext/> directory of the perl
e05e23b1 1089source then MakeMaker will set PERL_SRC automatically (e.g.,
1090C<../..>). If PERL_SRC is defined and the extension is recognized as
1091a standard extension, then other variables default to the following:
005c1a0e 1092
1093 PERL_INC = PERL_SRC
1094 PERL_LIB = PERL_SRC/lib
1095 PERL_ARCHLIB = PERL_SRC/lib
1096 INST_LIB = PERL_LIB
1097 INST_ARCHLIB = PERL_ARCHLIB
1098
1099If an extension is being built away from the perl source then MakeMaker
1100will leave PERL_SRC undefined and default to using the installed copy
1101of the perl library. The other variables default to the following:
1102
e05e23b1 1103 PERL_INC = $archlibexp/CORE
1104 PERL_LIB = $privlibexp
1105 PERL_ARCHLIB = $archlibexp
1106 INST_LIB = ./blib/lib
1107 INST_ARCHLIB = ./blib/arch
005c1a0e 1108
1109If perl has not yet been installed then PERL_SRC can be defined on the
1110command line as shown in the previous section.
1111
005c1a0e 1112
f1387719 1113=head2 Which architecture dependent directory?
005c1a0e 1114
f1387719 1115If you don't want to keep the defaults for the INSTALL* macros,
1116MakeMaker helps you to minimize the typing needed: the usual
1117relationship between INSTALLPRIVLIB and INSTALLARCHLIB is determined
1118by Configure at perl compilation time. MakeMaker supports the user who
1119sets INSTALLPRIVLIB. If INSTALLPRIVLIB is set, but INSTALLARCHLIB not,
1120then MakeMaker defaults the latter to be the same subdirectory of
1121INSTALLPRIVLIB as Configure decided for the counterparts in %Config ,
1122otherwise it defaults to INSTALLPRIVLIB. The same relationship holds
1123for INSTALLSITELIB and INSTALLSITEARCH.
005c1a0e 1124
f1387719 1125MakeMaker gives you much more freedom than needed to configure
1126internal variables and get different results. It is worth to mention,
1127that make(1) also lets you configure most of the variables that are
1128used in the Makefile. But in the majority of situations this will not
a7665c5e 1129be necessary, and should only be done if the author of a package
f1387719 1130recommends it (or you know what you're doing).
005c1a0e 1131
e05e23b1 1132=head2 Using Attributes and Parameters
005c1a0e 1133
1134The following attributes can be specified as arguments to WriteMakefile()
1135or as NAME=VALUE pairs on the command line:
1136
875fa795 1137=over 2
005c1a0e 1138
875fa795 1139=item ABSTRACT
1140
1141One line description of the module. Will be included in PPD file.
1142
1143=item ABSTRACT_FROM
1144
1145Name of the file that contains the package description. MakeMaker looks
1146for a line in the POD matching /^($package\s-\s)(.*)/. This is typically
1147the first line in the "=head1 NAME" section. $2 becomes the abstract.
1148
e35b8f9e 1149=item AUTHOR
1150
1151String containing name (and email address) of package author(s). Is used
1152in PPD (Perl Package Description) files for PPM (Perl Package Manager).
1153
875fa795 1154=item BINARY_LOCATION
1155
1156Used when creating PPD files for binary packages. It can be set to a
1157full or relative path or URL to the binary archive for a particular
1158architecture. For example:
1159
f6d6199c 1160 perl Makefile.PL BINARY_LOCATION=x86/Agent.tar.gz
875fa795 1161
1162builds a PPD package that references a binary of the C<Agent> package,
20e08411 1163located in the C<x86> directory relative to the PPD itself.
8e07c86e 1164
864a5fa8 1165=item C
8e07c86e 1166
864a5fa8 1167Ref to array of *.c file names. Initialised from a directory scan
1168and the values portion of the XS attribute hash. This is not
1169currently used by MakeMaker but may be handy in Makefile.PLs.
8e07c86e 1170
84902520 1171=item CCFLAGS
1172
1173String that will be included in the compiler call command line between
1174the arguments INC and OPTIMIZE.
1175
864a5fa8 1176=item CONFIG
8e07c86e 1177
864a5fa8 1178Arrayref. E.g. [qw(archname manext)] defines ARCHNAME & MANEXT from
1179config.sh. MakeMaker will add to CONFIG the following values anyway:
1180ar
1181cc
1182cccdlflags
1183ccdlflags
1184dlext
1185dlsrc
1186ld
1187lddlflags
1188ldflags
1189libc
1190lib_ext
1191obj_ext
1192ranlib
e05e23b1 1193sitelibexp
1194sitearchexp
864a5fa8 1195so
8e07c86e 1196
1197=item CONFIGURE
1198
e05e23b1 1199CODE reference. The subroutine should return a hash reference. The
1fef88e7 1200hash may contain further attributes, e.g. {LIBS =E<gt> ...}, that have to
8e07c86e 1201be determined by some evaluation method.
1202
864a5fa8 1203=item DEFINE
8e07c86e 1204
864a5fa8 1205Something like C<"-DHAVE_UNISTD_H">
8e07c86e 1206
864a5fa8 1207=item DIR
8e07c86e 1208
864a5fa8 1209Ref to array of subdirectories containing Makefile.PLs e.g. [ 'sdbm'
1210] in ext/SDBM_File
8e07c86e 1211
864a5fa8 1212=item DISTNAME
8e07c86e 1213
e05e23b1 1214Your name for distributing the package (by tar file). This defaults to
864a5fa8 1215NAME above.
8e07c86e 1216
864a5fa8 1217=item DL_FUNCS
8e07c86e 1218
875fa795 1219Hashref of symbol names for routines to be made available as universal
1220symbols. Each key/value pair consists of the package name and an
1221array of routine names in that package. Used only under AIX, OS/2,
1222VMS and Win32 at present. The routine names supplied will be expanded
1223in the same way as XSUB names are expanded by the XS() macro.
1224Defaults to
8e07c86e 1225
864a5fa8 1226 {"$(NAME)" => ["boot_$(NAME)" ] }
8e07c86e 1227
864a5fa8 1228e.g.
8e07c86e 1229
864a5fa8 1230 {"RPC" => [qw( boot_rpcb rpcb_gettime getnetconfigent )],
1231 "NetconfigPtr" => [ 'DESTROY'] }
8e07c86e 1232
875fa795 1233Please see the L<ExtUtils::Mksymlists> documentation for more information
1234about the DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS and FUNCLIST attributes.
1235
864a5fa8 1236=item DL_VARS
8e07c86e 1237
875fa795 1238Array of symbol names for variables to be made available as universal symbols.
1239Used only under AIX, OS/2, VMS and Win32 at present. Defaults to [].
1240(e.g. [ qw(Foo_version Foo_numstreams Foo_tree ) ])
8e07c86e 1241
f1387719 1242=item EXCLUDE_EXT
1243
1244Array of extension names to exclude when doing a static build. This
1245is ignored if INCLUDE_EXT is present. Consult INCLUDE_EXT for more
1246details. (e.g. [ qw( Socket POSIX ) ] )
1247
1248This attribute may be most useful when specified as a string on the
de592821 1249command line: perl Makefile.PL EXCLUDE_EXT='Socket Safe'
f1387719 1250
864a5fa8 1251=item EXE_FILES
8e07c86e 1252
864a5fa8 1253Ref to array of executable files. The files will be copied to the
f1387719 1254INST_SCRIPT directory. Make realclean will delete them from there
864a5fa8 1255again.
8e07c86e 1256
864a5fa8 1257=item FIRST_MAKEFILE
1258
1259The name of the Makefile to be produced. Defaults to the contents of
1260MAKEFILE, but can be overridden. This is used for the second Makefile
1261that will be produced for the MAP_TARGET.
1262
1263=item FULLPERL
8e07c86e 1264
75e2e551 1265Perl binary able to run this extension, load XS modules, etc...
1266
1267=item FULLPERLRUN
1268
1269Like PERLRUN, except it uses FULLPERL.
1270
1271=item FULLPERLRUNINST
1272
1273Like PERLRUNINST, except it uses FULLPERL.
864a5fa8 1274
762efda7 1275=item FUNCLIST
1276
1277This provides an alternate means to specify function names to be
1278exported from the extension. Its value is a reference to an
1279array of function names to be exported by the extension. These
1280names are passed through unaltered to the linker options file.
1281
864a5fa8 1282=item H
1283
1284Ref to array of *.h file names. Similar to C.
1285
84902520 1286=item IMPORTS
1287
875fa795 1288This attribute is used to specify names to be imported into the
1289extension. It is only used on OS/2 and Win32.
84902520 1290
864a5fa8 1291=item INC
1292
1293Include file dirs eg: C<"-I/usr/5include -I/path/to/inc">
1294
f1387719 1295=item INCLUDE_EXT
1296
1297Array of extension names to be included when doing a static build.
1298MakeMaker will normally build with all of the installed extensions when
1299doing a static build, and that is usually the desired behavior. If
1300INCLUDE_EXT is present then MakeMaker will build only with those extensions
1301which are explicitly mentioned. (e.g. [ qw( Socket POSIX ) ])
1302
1303It is not necessary to mention DynaLoader or the current extension when
1304filling in INCLUDE_EXT. If the INCLUDE_EXT is mentioned but is empty then
1305only DynaLoader and the current extension will be included in the build.
1306
1307This attribute may be most useful when specified as a string on the
de592821 1308command line: perl Makefile.PL INCLUDE_EXT='POSIX Socket Devel::Peek'
f1387719 1309
864a5fa8 1310=item INSTALLARCHLIB
1311
e05e23b1 1312Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_ARCHLIB to this
1313directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to perl.
864a5fa8 1314
1315=item INSTALLBIN
1316
5c161494 1317Directory to install binary files (e.g. tkperl) into if
1318INSTALLDIRS=perl.
e05e23b1 1319
1320=item INSTALLDIRS
1321
5c161494 1322Determines which of the sets of installation directories to choose:
1323perl, site or vendor. Defaults to site.
8e07c86e 1324
1325=item INSTALLMAN1DIR
1326
1327=item INSTALLMAN3DIR
1328
5c161494 1329These directories get the man pages at 'make install' time if
1330INSTALLDIRS=perl. Defaults to $Config{installman*dir}.
8e07c86e 1331
5c161494 1332If set to 'none', no man pages will be installed.
e0678a30 1333
864a5fa8 1334=item INSTALLPRIVLIB
8e07c86e 1335
e05e23b1 1336Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_LIB to this
1337directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to perl.
1338
5c161494 1339Defaults to $Config{installprivlib}.
1340
f1387719 1341=item INSTALLSCRIPT
1342
1343Used by 'make install' which copies files from INST_SCRIPT to this
1344directory.
1345
875fa795 1346=item INSTALLSITEARCH
e05e23b1 1347
875fa795 1348Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_ARCHLIB to this
e05e23b1 1349directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to site (default).
1350
5c161494 1351=item INSTALLSITEBIN
1352
1353Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_BIN to this
1354directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to site (default).
1355
875fa795 1356=item INSTALLSITELIB
e05e23b1 1357
875fa795 1358Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_LIB to this
e05e23b1 1359directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to site (default).
8e07c86e 1360
5c161494 1361=item INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR
1362
1363=item INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR
1364
1365These directories get the man pages at 'make install' time if
1366INSTALLDIRS=site (default). Defaults to
1367$(SITEPREFIX)/man/man$(MAN*EXT).
1368
1369If set to 'none', no man pages will be installed.
1370
1371=item INSTALLVENDORARCH
1372
1373Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_ARCHLIB to this
1374directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to vendor.
1375
1376=item INSTALLVENDORBIN
1377
1378Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_BIN to this
1379directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to vendor.
1380
1381=item INSTALLVENDORLIB
1382
1383Used by 'make install', which copies files from INST_LIB to this
1384directory if INSTALLDIRS is set to vendor.
1385
1386=item INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR
1387
1388=item INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR
1389
1390These directories get the man pages at 'make install' time if
1391INSTALLDIRS=vendor. Defaults to $(VENDORPREFIX)/man/man$(MAN*EXT).
1392
1393If set to 'none', no man pages will be installed.
1394
864a5fa8 1395=item INST_ARCHLIB
8e07c86e 1396
864a5fa8 1397Same as INST_LIB for architecture dependent files.
8e07c86e 1398
f1387719 1399=item INST_BIN
1400
1401Directory to put real binary files during 'make'. These will be copied
1402to INSTALLBIN during 'make install'
1403
e35b8f9e 1404=item INST_LIB
1405
1406Directory where we put library files of this extension while building
1407it.
1408
864a5fa8 1409=item INST_MAN1DIR
8e07c86e 1410
864a5fa8 1411Directory to hold the man pages at 'make' time
8e07c86e 1412
864a5fa8 1413=item INST_MAN3DIR
8e07c86e 1414
864a5fa8 1415Directory to hold the man pages at 'make' time
8e07c86e 1416
f1387719 1417=item INST_SCRIPT
1418
1419Directory, where executable files should be installed during
c3fed81c 1420'make'. Defaults to "./blib/script", just to have a dummy location during
f1387719 1421testing. make install will copy the files in INST_SCRIPT to
1422INSTALLSCRIPT.
1423
864a5fa8 1424=item LDFROM
8e07c86e 1425
864a5fa8 1426defaults to "$(OBJECT)" and is used in the ld command to specify
1427what files to link/load from (also see dynamic_lib below for how to
1428specify ld flags)
8e07c86e 1429
bab2b58e 1430=item LIB
1431
e35b8f9e 1432LIB should only be set at C<perl Makefile.PL> time but is allowed as a
f6d6199c 1433MakeMaker argument. It has the effect of setting both INSTALLPRIVLIB
1434and INSTALLSITELIB to that value regardless any explicit setting of
1435those arguments (or of PREFIX). INSTALLARCHLIB and INSTALLSITEARCH
1436are set to the corresponding architecture subdirectory.
bab2b58e 1437
762efda7 1438=item LIBPERL_A
1439
1440The filename of the perllibrary that will be used together with this
1441extension. Defaults to libperl.a.
1442
8e07c86e 1443=item LIBS
1444
1445An anonymous array of alternative library
1446specifications to be searched for (in order) until
864a5fa8 1447at least one library is found. E.g.
8e07c86e 1448
1449 'LIBS' => ["-lgdbm", "-ldbm -lfoo", "-L/path -ldbm.nfs"]
1450
1451Mind, that any element of the array
1452contains a complete set of arguments for the ld
1453command. So do not specify
1454
1455 'LIBS' => ["-ltcl", "-ltk", "-lX11"]
1456
1457See ODBM_File/Makefile.PL for an example, where an array is needed. If
1458you specify a scalar as in
1459
1460 'LIBS' => "-ltcl -ltk -lX11"
1461
1462MakeMaker will turn it into an array with one element.
1463
864a5fa8 1464=item LINKTYPE
8e07c86e 1465
e05e23b1 1466'static' or 'dynamic' (default unless usedl=undef in
1467config.sh). Should only be used to force static linking (also see
864a5fa8 1468linkext below).
8e07c86e 1469
864a5fa8 1470=item MAKEAPERL
8e07c86e 1471
864a5fa8 1472Boolean which tells MakeMaker, that it should include the rules to
1473make a perl. This is handled automatically as a switch by
1474MakeMaker. The user normally does not need it.
8e07c86e 1475
864a5fa8 1476=item MAKEFILE
8e07c86e 1477
864a5fa8 1478The name of the Makefile to be produced.
8e07c86e 1479
864a5fa8 1480=item MAN1PODS
8e07c86e 1481
864a5fa8 1482Hashref of pod-containing files. MakeMaker will default this to all
1483EXE_FILES files that include POD directives. The files listed
1484here will be converted to man pages and installed as was requested
1485at Configure time.
8e07c86e 1486
864a5fa8 1487=item MAN3PODS
8e07c86e 1488
bfa2a9ad 1489Hashref that assigns to *.pm and *.pod files the files into which the
1490manpages are to be written. MakeMaker parses all *.pod and *.pm files
1491for POD directives. Files that contain POD will be the default keys of
1492the MAN3PODS hashref. These will then be converted to man pages during
1493C<make> and will be installed during C<make install>.
8e07c86e 1494
864a5fa8 1495=item MAP_TARGET
8e07c86e 1496
864a5fa8 1497If it is intended, that a new perl binary be produced, this variable
1498may hold a name for that binary. Defaults to perl
8e07c86e 1499
864a5fa8 1500=item MYEXTLIB
4633a7c4 1501
864a5fa8 1502If the extension links to a library that it builds set this to the
1503name of the library (see SDBM_File)
4633a7c4 1504
864a5fa8 1505=item NAME
8e07c86e 1506
864a5fa8 1507Perl module name for this extension (DBD::Oracle). This will default
1508to the directory name but should be explicitly defined in the
1509Makefile.PL.
8e07c86e 1510
864a5fa8 1511=item NEEDS_LINKING
8e07c86e 1512
a7665c5e 1513MakeMaker will figure out if an extension contains linkable code
864a5fa8 1514anywhere down the directory tree, and will set this variable
a7665c5e 1515accordingly, but you can speed it up a very little bit if you define
864a5fa8 1516this boolean variable yourself.
8e07c86e 1517
e05e23b1 1518=item NOECHO
1519
f1387719 1520Defaults to C<@>. By setting it to an empty string you can generate a
e05e23b1 1521Makefile that echos all commands. Mainly used in debugging MakeMaker
1522itself.
1523
864a5fa8 1524=item NORECURS
8e07c86e 1525
e05e23b1 1526Boolean. Attribute to inhibit descending into subdirectories.
8e07c86e 1527
762efda7 1528=item NO_VC
1529
a7665c5e 1530In general, any generated Makefile checks for the current version of
762efda7 1531MakeMaker and the version the Makefile was built under. If NO_VC is
1532set, the version check is neglected. Do not write this into your
1533Makefile.PL, use it interactively instead.
1534
864a5fa8 1535=item OBJECT
8e07c86e 1536
864a5fa8 1537List of object files, defaults to '$(BASEEXT)$(OBJ_EXT)', but can be a long
1538string containing all object files, e.g. "tkpBind.o
1539tkpButton.o tkpCanvas.o"
8e07c86e 1540
e35b8f9e 1541(Where BASEEXT is the last component of NAME, and OBJ_EXT is $Config{obj_ext}.)
1542
3b03c0f3 1543=item OPTIMIZE
1544
1545Defaults to C<-O>. Set it to C<-g> to turn debugging on. The flag is
1546passed to subdirectory makes.
1547
864a5fa8 1548=item PERL
8e07c86e 1549
864a5fa8 1550Perl binary for tasks that can be done by miniperl
8e07c86e 1551
da7f727a 1552=item PERL_CORE
1553
1554Set only when MakeMaker is building the extensions of the Perl core
1555distribution.
1556
864a5fa8 1557=item PERLMAINCC
005c1a0e 1558
864a5fa8 1559The call to the program that is able to compile perlmain.c. Defaults
1560to $(CC).
005c1a0e 1561
864a5fa8 1562=item PERL_ARCHLIB
005c1a0e 1563
da7f727a 1564Same as for PERL_LIB, but for architecture dependent files.
1565
1566Used only when MakeMaker is building the extensions of the Perl core
1567distribution (because normally $(PERL_ARCHLIB) is automatically in @INC,
1568and adding it would get in the way of PERL5LIB).
8e07c86e 1569
864a5fa8 1570=item PERL_LIB
8e07c86e 1571
864a5fa8 1572Directory containing the Perl library to use.
8e07c86e 1573
da7f727a 1574Used only when MakeMaker is building the extensions of the Perl core
1575distribution (because normally $(PERL_LIB) is automatically in @INC,
1576and adding it would get in the way of PERL5LIB).
1577
e35b8f9e 1578=item PERL_MALLOC_OK
1579
1580defaults to 0. Should be set to TRUE if the extension can work with
1581the memory allocation routines substituted by the Perl malloc() subsystem.
1582This should be applicable to most extensions with exceptions of those
1583
1584=over 4
1585
1586=item *
1587
1588with bugs in memory allocations which are caught by Perl's malloc();
1589
1590=item *
1591
1592which interact with the memory allocator in other ways than via
1593malloc(), realloc(), free(), calloc(), sbrk() and brk();
1594
1595=item *
1596
1597which rely on special alignment which is not provided by Perl's malloc().
1598
1599=back
1600
1601B<NOTE.> Negligence to set this flag in I<any one> of loaded extension
1602nullifies many advantages of Perl's malloc(), such as better usage of
1603system resources, error detection, memory usage reporting, catchable failure
1604of memory allocations, etc.
1605
da7f727a 1606=item PERLRUN
1607
75e2e551 1608Use this instead of $(PERL) when you wish to run perl. It will set up
1609extra necessary flags for you.
f6d6199c 1610
ffbaec2a 1611=item PERLRUNINST
f6d6199c 1612
75e2e551 1613Use this instead of $(PERL) when you wish to run perl to work with
1614modules. It will add things like -I$(INST_ARCH) and other necessary
1615flags so perl can see the modules you're about to install.
f6d6199c 1616
864a5fa8 1617=item PERL_SRC
8e07c86e 1618
864a5fa8 1619Directory containing the Perl source code (use of this should be
1620avoided, it may be undefined)
8e07c86e 1621
2366100d 1622=item PERM_RW
1623
de592821 1624Desired permission for read/writable files. Defaults to C<644>.
2366100d 1625See also L<MM_Unix/perm_rw>.
1626
1627=item PERM_RWX
1628
1629Desired permission for executable files. Defaults to C<755>.
1630See also L<MM_Unix/perm_rwx>.
1631
864a5fa8 1632=item PL_FILES
8e07c86e 1633
864a5fa8 1634Ref to hash of files to be processed as perl programs. MakeMaker
1635will default to any found *.PL file (except Makefile.PL) being keys
1636and the basename of the file being the value. E.g.
8e07c86e 1637
864a5fa8 1638 {'foobar.PL' => 'foobar'}
8e07c86e 1639
864a5fa8 1640The *.PL files are expected to produce output to the target files
3aa35033 1641themselves. If multiple files can be generated from the same *.PL
1642file then the value in the hash can be a reference to an array of
1643target file names. E.g.
1644
1645 {'foobar.PL' => ['foobar1','foobar2']}
8e07c86e 1646
864a5fa8 1647=item PM
8e07c86e 1648
864a5fa8 1649Hashref of .pm files and *.pl files to be installed. e.g.
8e07c86e 1650
864a5fa8 1651 {'name_of_file.pm' => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/install_as.pm'}
8e07c86e 1652
a3cb178b 1653By default this will include *.pm and *.pl and the files found in
1654the PMLIBDIRS directories. Defining PM in the
864a5fa8 1655Makefile.PL will override PMLIBDIRS.
8e07c86e 1656
864a5fa8 1657=item PMLIBDIRS
8e07c86e 1658
864a5fa8 1659Ref to array of subdirectories containing library files. Defaults to
a3cb178b 1660[ 'lib', $(BASEEXT) ]. The directories will be scanned and I<any> files
864a5fa8 1661they contain will be installed in the corresponding location in the
1662library. A libscan() method can be used to alter the behaviour.
1663Defining PM in the Makefile.PL will override PMLIBDIRS.
8e07c86e 1664
e35b8f9e 1665(Where BASEEXT is the last component of NAME.)
1666
131aa089 1667=item PM_FILTER
1668
1669A filter program, in the traditional Unix sense (input from stdin, output
1670to stdout) that is passed on each .pm file during the build (in the
1671pm_to_blib() phase). It is empty by default, meaning no filtering is done.
1672
1673Great care is necessary when defining the command if quoting needs to be
1674done. For instance, you would need to say:
1675
1676 {'PM_FILTER' => 'grep -v \\"^\\#\\"'}
1677
1678to remove all the leading coments on the fly during the build. The
1679extra \\ are necessary, unfortunately, because this variable is interpolated
1680within the context of a Perl program built on the command line, and double
1681quotes are what is used with the -e switch to build that command line. The
1682# is escaped for the Makefile, since what is going to be generated will then
1683be:
1684
1685 PM_FILTER = grep -v \"^\#\"
1686
1687Without the \\ before the #, we'd have the start of a Makefile comment,
1688and the macro would be incorrectly defined.
1689
2aea4d40 1690=item POLLUTE
1691
1692Release 5.005 grandfathered old global symbol names by providing preprocessor
a7665c5e 1693macros for extension source compatibility. As of release 5.6, these
2aea4d40 1694preprocessor definitions are not available by default. The POLLUTE flag
1695specifies that the old names should still be defined:
1696
1697 perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
1698
1699Please inform the module author if this is necessary to successfully install
a7665c5e 1700a module under 5.6 or later.
2aea4d40 1701
875fa795 1702=item PPM_INSTALL_EXEC
1703
20e08411 1704Name of the executable used to run C<PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT> below. (e.g. perl)
875fa795 1705
1706=item PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT
1707
1708Name of the script that gets executed by the Perl Package Manager after
1709the installation of a package.
1710
864a5fa8 1711=item PREFIX
8e07c86e 1712
f6d6199c 1713This overrides all the default install locations. Man pages,
1714libraries, scripts, etc... MakeMaker will try to make an educated
1715guess about where to place things under the new PREFIX based on your
1716Config defaults. Failing that, it will fall back to a structure
1717which should be sensible for your platform.
1718
1719If you specify LIB or any INSTALL* variables they will not be effected
1720by the PREFIX.
a4260cbc 1721
5c161494 1722Defaults to $Config{installprefixexp}.
1723
f1387719 1724=item PREREQ_PM
8e07c86e 1725
f1387719 1726Hashref: Names of modules that need to be available to run this
1727extension (e.g. Fcntl for SDBM_File) are the keys of the hash and the
1728desired version is the value. If the required version number is 0, we
1729only check if any version is installed already.
8e07c86e 1730
b2340c53 1731=item PREREQ_FATAL
1732
1733Bool. If this parameter is true, failing to have the required modules
1734(or the right versions thereof) will be fatal. perl Makefile.PL will die
1735with the proper message.
1736
1737Note: see L<Test::Harness> for a shortcut for stopping tests early if
1738you are missing dependencies.
1739
1740Do I<not> use this parameter for simple requirements, which could be resolved
1741at a later time, e.g. after an unsuccessful B<make test> of your module.
1742
1743It is I<extremely> rare to have to use C<PREREQ_FATAL> at all!
1744
88d69b28 1745=item PREREQ_PRINT
1746
1747Bool. If this parameter is true, the prerequisites will be printed to
1748stdout and MakeMaker will exit. The output format is
1749
1750$PREREQ_PM = {
1751 'A::B' => Vers1,
1752 'C::D' => Vers2,
1753 ...
1754 };
1755
1756=item PRINT_PREREQ
1757
1758RedHatism for C<PREREQ_PRINT>. The output format is different, though:
1759
1760 perl(A::B)>=Vers1 perl(C::D)>=Vers2 ...
1761
5c161494 1762=item SITEPREFIX
1763
1764Like PREFIX, but only for the site install locations.
1765
1766Defaults to PREFIX (if set) or $Config{siteprefixexp}
1767
864a5fa8 1768=item SKIP
8e07c86e 1769
da7f727a 1770Arrayref. E.g. [qw(name1 name2)] skip (do not write) sections of the
a7665c5e 1771Makefile. Caution! Do not use the SKIP attribute for the negligible
1772speedup. It may seriously damage the resulting Makefile. Only use it
f1387719 1773if you really need it.
8e07c86e 1774
864a5fa8 1775=item TYPEMAPS
8e07c86e 1776
864a5fa8 1777Ref to array of typemap file names. Use this when the typemaps are
1778in some directory other than the current directory or when they are
1779not named B<typemap>. The last typemap in the list takes
1780precedence. A typemap in the current directory has highest
1781precedence, even if it isn't listed in TYPEMAPS. The default system
1782typemap has lowest precedence.
8e07c86e 1783
5c161494 1784=item VENDORPREFIX
1785
1786Like PREFIX, but only for the vendor install locations.
1787
1788Defaults to PREFIX (if set) or $Config{vendorprefixexp}
1789
45bc4d3a 1790=item VERBINST
1791
1792If true, make install will be verbose
1793
864a5fa8 1794=item VERSION
8e07c86e 1795
864a5fa8 1796Your version number for distributing the package. This defaults to
17970.1.
8e07c86e 1798
0d8023a2 1799=item VERSION_FROM
1800
1801Instead of specifying the VERSION in the Makefile.PL you can let
1802MakeMaker parse a file to determine the version number. The parsing
1803routine requires that the file named by VERSION_FROM contains one
1804single line to compute the version number. The first line in the file
1805that contains the regular expression
1806
84902520 1807 /([\$*])(([\w\:\']*)\bVERSION)\b.*\=/
0d8023a2 1808
1809will be evaluated with eval() and the value of the named variable
1810B<after> the eval() will be assigned to the VERSION attribute of the
1811MakeMaker object. The following lines will be parsed o.k.:
1812
1813 $VERSION = '1.00';
84902520 1814 *VERSION = \'1.01';
f582e489 1815 ( $VERSION ) = '$Revision: 1.46 $ ' =~ /\$Revision:\s+([^\s]+)/;
0d8023a2 1816 $FOO::VERSION = '1.10';
84902520 1817 *FOO::VERSION = \'1.11';
f6d6199c 1818 our $VERSION = 1.2.3; # new for perl5.6.0
0d8023a2 1819
1820but these will fail:
1821
1822 my $VERSION = '1.01';
1823 local $VERSION = '1.02';
1824 local $FOO::VERSION = '1.30';
1825
e35b8f9e 1826(Putting C<my> or C<local> on the preceding line will work o.k.)
1827
84902520 1828The file named in VERSION_FROM is not added as a dependency to
1829Makefile. This is not really correct, but it would be a major pain
1830during development to have to rewrite the Makefile for any smallish
1831change in that file. If you want to make sure that the Makefile
1832contains the correct VERSION macro after any change of the file, you
1833would have to do something like
1834
1835 depend => { Makefile => '$(VERSION_FROM)' }
1836
1837See attribute C<depend> below.
0d8023a2 1838
864a5fa8 1839=item XS
8e07c86e 1840
864a5fa8 1841Hashref of .xs files. MakeMaker will default this. e.g.
8e07c86e 1842
864a5fa8 1843 {'name_of_file.xs' => 'name_of_file.c'}
8e07c86e 1844
864a5fa8 1845The .c files will automatically be included in the list of files
1846deleted by a make clean.
4633a7c4 1847
864a5fa8 1848=item XSOPT
8e07c86e 1849
864a5fa8 1850String of options to pass to xsubpp. This might include C<-C++> or
1851C<-extern>. Do not include typemaps here; the TYPEMAP parameter exists for
1852that purpose.
8e07c86e 1853
864a5fa8 1854=item XSPROTOARG
4633a7c4 1855
4e68a208 1856May be set to an empty string, which is identical to C<-prototypes>, or
864a5fa8 1857C<-noprototypes>. See the xsubpp documentation for details. MakeMaker
4e68a208 1858defaults to the empty string.
1859
0d8023a2 1860=item XS_VERSION
1861
1862Your version number for the .xs file of this package. This defaults
1863to the value of the VERSION attribute.
1864
8e07c86e 1865=back
1866
1867=head2 Additional lowercase attributes
1868
1869can be used to pass parameters to the methods which implement that
f1387719 1870part of the Makefile.
8e07c86e 1871
1872=over 2
1873
864a5fa8 1874=item clean
8e07c86e 1875
864a5fa8 1876 {FILES => "*.xyz foo"}
1877
c07a80fd 1878=item depend
1879
1880 {ANY_TARGET => ANY_DEPENDECY, ...}
1881
e35b8f9e 1882(ANY_TARGET must not be given a double-colon rule by MakeMaker.)
1883
864a5fa8 1884=item dist
1885
5f8e730b 1886 {TARFLAGS => 'cvfF', COMPRESS => 'gzip', SUFFIX => '.gz',
3b03c0f3 1887 SHAR => 'shar -m', DIST_CP => 'ln', ZIP => '/bin/zip',
f1387719 1888 ZIPFLAGS => '-rl', DIST_DEFAULT => 'private tardist' }
864a5fa8 1889
1890If you specify COMPRESS, then SUFFIX should also be altered, as it is
1891needed to tell make the target file of the compression. Setting
1892DIST_CP to ln can be useful, if you need to preserve the timestamps on
1893your files. DIST_CP can take the values 'cp', which copies the file,
1894'ln', which links the file, and 'best' which copies symbolic links and
1895links the rest. Default is 'best'.
1896
1897=item dynamic_lib
1898
0d8023a2 1899 {ARMAYBE => 'ar', OTHERLDFLAGS => '...', INST_DYNAMIC_DEP => '...'}
8e07c86e 1900
8e07c86e 1901=item linkext
1902
1903 {LINKTYPE => 'static', 'dynamic' or ''}
1904
864a5fa8 1905NB: Extensions that have nothing but *.pm files had to say
8e07c86e 1906
1907 {LINKTYPE => ''}
1908
864a5fa8 1909with Pre-5.0 MakeMakers. Since version 5.00 of MakeMaker such a line
a7665c5e 1910can be deleted safely. MakeMaker recognizes when there's nothing to
864a5fa8 1911be linked.
8e07c86e 1912
864a5fa8 1913=item macro
8e07c86e 1914
864a5fa8 1915 {ANY_MACRO => ANY_VALUE, ...}
8e07c86e 1916
1917=item realclean
1918
1919 {FILES => '$(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)/*.xyz'}
1920
f2f614a6 1921=item test
1922
1923 {TESTS => 't/*.t'}
1924
8e07c86e 1925=item tool_autosplit
1926
f2f614a6 1927 {MAXLEN => 8}
005c1a0e 1928
1929=back
1930
1931=head2 Overriding MakeMaker Methods
1932
1933If you cannot achieve the desired Makefile behaviour by specifying
1934attributes you may define private subroutines in the Makefile.PL.
e0678a30 1935Each subroutine returns the text it wishes to have written to
005c1a0e 1936the Makefile. To override a section of the Makefile you can
1937either say:
1938
f6d6199c 1939 sub MY::c_o { "new literal text" }
005c1a0e 1940
1941or you can edit the default by saying something like:
1942
e0678a30 1943 package MY; # so that "SUPER" works right
1944 sub c_o {
f6d6199c 1945 my $inherited = shift->SUPER::c_o(@_);
1946 $inherited =~ s/old text/new text/;
1947 $inherited;
1948 }
8e07c86e 1949
bdda3fbd 1950If you are running experiments with embedding perl as a library into
1951other applications, you might find MakeMaker is not sufficient. You'd
1952better have a look at ExtUtils::Embed which is a collection of utilities
1953for embedding.
005c1a0e 1954
1955If you still need a different solution, try to develop another
bdda3fbd 1956subroutine that fits your needs and submit the diffs to
e0678a30 1957F<makemaker@perl.org>
005c1a0e 1958
e0678a30 1959For a complete description of all MakeMaker methods see
1960L<ExtUtils::MM_Unix>.
3b03c0f3 1961
1962Here is a simple example of how to add a new target to the generated
1963Makefile:
1964
1965 sub MY::postamble {
e0678a30 1966 return <<'MAKE_FRAG';
3b03c0f3 1967 $(MYEXTLIB): sdbm/Makefile
f6d6199c 1968 cd sdbm && $(MAKE) all
e0678a30 1969
1970 MAKE_FRAG
3b03c0f3 1971 }
1972
1973
f1387719 1974=head2 Hintsfile support
1975
1976MakeMaker.pm uses the architecture specific information from
1977Config.pm. In addition it evaluates architecture specific hints files
1978in a C<hints/> directory. The hints files are expected to be named
1979like their counterparts in C<PERL_SRC/hints>, but with an C<.pl> file
1980name extension (eg. C<next_3_2.pl>). They are simply C<eval>ed by
1981MakeMaker within the WriteMakefile() subroutine, and can be used to
1982execute commands as well as to include special variables. The rules
1983which hintsfile is chosen are the same as in Configure.
1984
1985The hintsfile is eval()ed immediately after the arguments given to
1986WriteMakefile are stuffed into a hash reference $self but before this
1987reference becomes blessed. So if you want to do the equivalent to
1988override or create an attribute you would say something like
1989
1990 $self->{LIBS} = ['-ldbm -lucb -lc'];
1991
005c1a0e 1992=head2 Distribution Support
1993
1994For authors of extensions MakeMaker provides several Makefile
1995targets. Most of the support comes from the ExtUtils::Manifest module,
1996where additional documentation can be found.
1997
1998=over 4
1999
2000=item make distcheck
8e07c86e 2001
005c1a0e 2002reports which files are below the build directory but not in the
2003MANIFEST file and vice versa. (See ExtUtils::Manifest::fullcheck() for
2004details)
2005
4633a7c4 2006=item make skipcheck
2007
2008reports which files are skipped due to the entries in the
2009C<MANIFEST.SKIP> file (See ExtUtils::Manifest::skipcheck() for
2010details)
2011
005c1a0e 2012=item make distclean
8e07c86e 2013
005c1a0e 2014does a realclean first and then the distcheck. Note that this is not
a7665c5e 2015needed to build a new distribution as long as you are sure that the
005c1a0e 2016MANIFEST file is ok.
2017
2018=item make manifest
8e07c86e 2019
005c1a0e 2020rewrites the MANIFEST file, adding all remaining files found (See
2021ExtUtils::Manifest::mkmanifest() for details)
2022
2023=item make distdir
8e07c86e 2024
005c1a0e 2025Copies all the files that are in the MANIFEST file to a newly created
2026directory with the name C<$(DISTNAME)-$(VERSION)>. If that directory
2027exists, it will be removed first.
2028
f6d6199c 2029=item make disttest
8e07c86e 2030
2031Makes a distdir first, and runs a C<perl Makefile.PL>, a make, and
4633a7c4 2032a make test in that directory.
8e07c86e 2033
005c1a0e 2034=item make tardist
8e07c86e 2035
3b03c0f3 2036First does a distdir. Then a command $(PREOP) which defaults to a null
f1387719 2037command, followed by $(TOUNIX), which defaults to a null command under
2038UNIX, and will convert files in distribution directory to UNIX format
2039otherwise. Next it runs C<tar> on that directory into a tarfile and
3b03c0f3 2040deletes the directory. Finishes with a command $(POSTOP) which
2041defaults to a null command.
005c1a0e 2042
2043=item make dist
8e07c86e 2044
005c1a0e 2045Defaults to $(DIST_DEFAULT) which in turn defaults to tardist.
2046
2047=item make uutardist
8e07c86e 2048
005c1a0e 2049Runs a tardist first and uuencodes the tarfile.
2050
2051=item make shdist
8e07c86e 2052
3b03c0f3 2053First does a distdir. Then a command $(PREOP) which defaults to a null
2054command. Next it runs C<shar> on that directory into a sharfile and
2055deletes the intermediate directory again. Finishes with a command
2056$(POSTOP) which defaults to a null command. Note: For shdist to work
2057properly a C<shar> program that can handle directories is mandatory.
2058
2059=item make zipdist
2060
2061First does a distdir. Then a command $(PREOP) which defaults to a null
2062command. Runs C<$(ZIP) $(ZIPFLAGS)> on that directory into a
2063zipfile. Then deletes that directory. Finishes with a command
2064$(POSTOP) which defaults to a null command.
005c1a0e 2065
2066=item make ci
8e07c86e 2067
2068Does a $(CI) and a $(RCS_LABEL) on all files in the MANIFEST file.
2069
2070=back
005c1a0e 2071
2072Customization of the dist targets can be done by specifying a hash
2073reference to the dist attribute of the WriteMakefile call. The
2074following parameters are recognized:
2075
8e07c86e 2076 CI ('ci -u')
5f8e730b 2077 COMPRESS ('gzip --best')
005c1a0e 2078 POSTOP ('@ :')
8e07c86e 2079 PREOP ('@ :')
f1387719 2080 TO_UNIX (depends on the system)
8e07c86e 2081 RCS_LABEL ('rcs -q -Nv$(VERSION_SYM):')
2082 SHAR ('shar')
5f8e730b 2083 SUFFIX ('.gz')
8e07c86e 2084 TAR ('tar')
2085 TARFLAGS ('cvf')
3b03c0f3 2086 ZIP ('zip')
2087 ZIPFLAGS ('-r')
005c1a0e 2088
2089An example:
2090
5f8e730b 2091 WriteMakefile( 'dist' => { COMPRESS=>"bzip2", SUFFIX=>".bz2" })
005c1a0e 2092
1b171b8d 2093=head2 Disabling an extension
2094
2095If some events detected in F<Makefile.PL> imply that there is no way
2096to create the Module, but this is a normal state of things, then you
2097can create a F<Makefile> which does nothing, but succeeds on all the
2098"usual" build targets. To do so, use
2099
2100 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteEmptyMakefile();
2101
2102instead of WriteMakefile().
2103
2104This may be useful if other modules expect this module to be I<built>
2105OK, as opposed to I<work> OK (say, this system-dependent module builds
2106in a subdirectory of some other distribution, or is listed as a
2107dependency in a CPAN::Bundle, but the functionality is supported by
2108different means on the current architecture).
2109
6ce21ffa 2110=head1 ENVIRONMENT
2111
2112=over 8
2113
2443aee5 2114=item PERL_MM_OPT
6ce21ffa 2115
2116Command line options used by C<MakeMaker-E<gt>new()>, and thus by
2117C<WriteMakefile()>. The string is split on whitespace, and the result
2118is processed before any actual command line arguments are processed.
2119
9d05ba64 2120=item PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
2121
2122If set to a true value then MakeMaker's prompt function will
2123always return the default without waiting for user input.
2124
6ce21ffa 2125=back
2126
f1387719 2127=head1 SEE ALSO
2128
f6d6199c 2129ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::Manifest ExtUtils::Install,
2130ExtUtils::Embed
005c1a0e 2131
e05e23b1 2132=head1 AUTHORS
fed7345c 2133
e0678a30 2134Andy Dougherty <F<doughera@lafayette.edu>>, Andreas KE<ouml>nig
2135<F<andreas.koenig@mind.de>>, Tim Bunce <F<timb@cpan.org>>. VMS
de90321e 2136support by Charles Bailey <F<bailey@newman.upenn.edu>>. OS/2 support
2137by Ilya Zakharevich <F<ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>>.
2138
f6d6199c 2139Currently maintained by Michael G Schwern <F<schwern@pobox.com>>
2140
2141Send patches and ideas to <F<makemaker@perl.org>>.
e8012c20 2142
e0678a30 2143Send bug reports via http://rt.cpan.org/. Please send your
2144generated Makefile along with your report.
2145
2146For more up-to-date information, see http://www.makemaker.org.
fed7345c 2147
005c1a0e 2148=cut