package ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
-$VERSION = "5.4302";
+$VERSION = "5.47";
$Version_OK = "5.17"; # Makefiles older than $Version_OK will die
# (Will be checked from MakeMaker version 4.13 onwards)
($Revision = substr(q$Revision: 1.222 $, 10)) =~ s/\s+$//;
use vars qw(
@ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK $AUTOLOAD
- $ISA_TTY $Is_Mac $Is_OS2 $Is_VMS $Revision $Setup_done
+ $ISA_TTY $Is_Mac $Is_OS2 $Is_VMS $Revision
$VERSION $Verbose $Version_OK %Config %Keep_after_flush
%MM_Sections %Prepend_dot_dot %Recognized_Att_Keys
@Get_from_Config @MM_Sections @Overridable @Parent
# default routine without having to know under what OS
# it's running.
#
-@MM::ISA = qw[ExtUtils::MM_Unix ExtUtils::Liblist ExtUtils::MakeMaker];
+@MM::ISA = qw[ExtUtils::MM_Unix ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid ExtUtils::MakeMaker];
#
# Setup dummy package:
# "predeclare the package: we only load it via AUTOLOAD
# but we have already mentioned it in @ISA
-package ExtUtils::Liblist;
+package ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid;
package ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
#
$Is_OS2 = $^O eq 'os2';
$Is_Mac = $^O eq 'MacOS';
$Is_Win32 = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
-$Is_Cygwin= $^O =~ /cygwin/i;
+$Is_Cygwin= $^O eq 'cygwin';
+$Is_NetWare = $Config{'osname'} eq 'NetWare';
require ExtUtils::MM_Unix;
require ExtUtils::MM_OS2;
}
if ($Is_Mac) {
- require ExtUtils::MM_Mac;
+ require ExtUtils::MM_MacOS;
+}
+if ($Is_NetWare) {
+ $^O = 'NetWare';
+ require ExtUtils::MM_NW5;
+ $Is_Win32=0;
}
if ($Is_Win32) {
require ExtUtils::MM_Win32;
require ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin;
}
-# The SelfLoader would bring a lot of overhead for MakeMaker, because
-# we know for sure we will use most of the autoloaded functions once
-# we have to use one of them. So we write our own loader
-
-sub AUTOLOAD {
- my $code;
- if (defined fileno(DATA)) {
- my $fh = select DATA;
- my $o = $/; # For future reads from the file.
- $/ = "\n__END__\n";
- $code = <DATA>;
- $/ = $o;
- select $fh;
- close DATA;
- eval $code;
- if ($@) {
- $@ =~ s/ at .*\n//;
- Carp::croak $@;
- }
- } else {
- warn "AUTOLOAD called unexpectedly for $AUTOLOAD";
- }
- defined(&$AUTOLOAD) or die "Myloader inconsistency error";
- goto &$AUTOLOAD;
-}
+full_setup();
-# The only subroutine we do not SelfLoad is Version_Check because it's
-# called so often. Loading this minimum still requires 1.2 secs on my
-# Indy :-(
+# The use of the Version_check target has been dropped between perl
+# 5.5.63 and 5.5.64. We must keep the subroutine for a while so that
+# old Makefiles can satisfy the Version_check target.
sub Version_check {
my($checkversion) = @_;
warn @_;
}
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::eval_in_subdirs ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::eval_in_x ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::full_setup ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::writeMakefile ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::new ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::check_manifest ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::parse_args ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::check_hints ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::mv_all_methods ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::skipcheck ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::flush ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::mkbootstrap ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::mksymlists ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::neatvalue ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::selfdocument ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile ;
-sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt ($;$) ;
-
-1;
-
-__DATA__
-
-package ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
-
sub WriteMakefile {
Carp::croak "WriteMakefile: Need even number of args" if @_ % 2;
local $SIG{__WARN__} = \&warnhandler;
- unless ($Setup_done++){
- full_setup();
- undef &ExtUtils::MakeMaker::full_setup; #safe memory
- }
my %att = @_;
MM->new(\%att)->flush;
}
my $ans;
local $|=1;
print "$mess $dispdef";
- if ($ISA_TTY) {
+ if ($ISA_TTY && !$ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT}) {
chomp($ans = <STDIN>);
} else {
print "$def\n";
sub eval_in_subdirs {
my($self) = @_;
my($dir);
- use Cwd 'cwd';
+ use Cwd qw(cwd abs_path);
my $pwd = cwd();
+ local @INC = map eval {abs_path($_) if -e} || $_, @INC;
foreach $dir (@{$self->{DIR}}){
my($abs) = $self->catdir($pwd,$dir);
sub full_setup {
$Verbose ||= 0;
- $^W=1;
# package name for the classes into which the first object will be blessed
$PACKNAME = "PACK000";
AUTHOR ABSTRACT ABSTRACT_FROM BINARY_LOCATION
C CAPI CCFLAGS CONFIG CONFIGURE DEFINE DIR DISTNAME DL_FUNCS DL_VARS
EXCLUDE_EXT EXE_FILES FIRST_MAKEFILE FULLPERL FUNCLIST H
- HTMLLIBPODS HTMLSCRIPTPOD IMPORTS
+ HTMLLIBPODS HTMLSCRIPTPODS IMPORTS
INC INCLUDE_EXT INSTALLARCHLIB INSTALLBIN INSTALLDIRS INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR
INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR INSTALLMAN1DIR
INSTALLMAN3DIR INSTALLPRIVLIB INSTALLSCRIPT INSTALLSITEARCH
INST_HTMLLIBDIR INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR
INST_MAN1DIR INST_MAN3DIR INST_SCRIPT LDFROM LIB LIBPERL_A LIBS
LINKTYPE MAKEAPERL MAKEFILE MAN1PODS MAN3PODS MAP_TARGET MYEXTLIB
+ PERL_MALLOC_OK
NAME NEEDS_LINKING NOECHO NORECURS NO_VC OBJECT OPTIMIZE PERL PERLMAINCC
- PERL_ARCHLIB PERL_LIB PERL_SRC PERM_RW PERM_RWX
- PL_FILES PM PMLIBDIRS POLLUTE PPM_INSTALL_EXEC PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT PREFIX
- PREREQ_PM SKIP TYPEMAPS VERSION VERSION_FROM XS XSOPT XSPROTOARG
+ PERLRUN PERLRUNINST PERL_ARCHLIB PERL_CORE
+ PERL_LIB PERL_SRC PERM_RW PERM_RWX
+ PL_FILES PM PM_FILTER PMLIBDIRS POLLUTE PPM_INSTALL_EXEC
+ PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT PREFIX
+ PREREQ_FATAL PREREQ_PM PREREQ_PRINT PRINT_PREREQ
+ SKIP TEST_LIBS TYPEMAPS VERSION VERSION_FROM XS XSOPT XSPROTOARG
XS_VERSION clean depend dist dynamic_lib linkext macro realclean
tool_autosplit
+ MACPERL_SRC MACPERL_LIB MACLIBS_68K MACLIBS_PPC MACLIBS_SC MACLIBS_MRC
+ MACLIBS_ALL_68K MACLIBS_ALL_PPC MACLIBS_SHARED
/;
# IMPORTS is used under OS/2 and Win32
dir_target libscan makeaperl needs_linking perm_rw perm_rwx
subdir_x test_via_harness test_via_script
-
];
push @MM_Sections, qw[
@Get_from_Config =
qw(
ar cc cccdlflags ccdlflags dlext dlsrc ld lddlflags ldflags libc
- lib_ext obj_ext osname osvers ranlib sitelibexp sitearchexp so exe_ext
+ lib_ext obj_ext osname osvers ranlib sitelibexp sitearchexp so
+ exe_ext full_ar
);
my $item;
my($class,$self) = @_;
my($key);
+ if ("@ARGV" =~ /\bPREREQ_PRINT\b/) {
+ require Data::Dumper;
+ print Data::Dumper->Dump([$self->{PREREQ_PM}], [qw(PREREQ_PM)]);
+ }
+
+ # PRINT_PREREQ is RedHatism.
+ if ("@ARGV" =~ /\bPRINT_PREREQ\b/) {
+ print join(" ", map { "perl($_)>=$self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$_} " } sort keys %{$self->{PREREQ_PM}}), "\n";
+ exit 0;
+ }
+
print STDOUT "MakeMaker (v$VERSION)\n" if $Verbose;
if (-f "MANIFEST" && ! -f "Makefile"){
check_manifest();
check_hints($self);
+ my %configure_att; # record &{$self->{CONFIGURE}} attributes
my(%initial_att) = %$self; # record initial attributes
+ my(%unsatisfied) = ();
my($prereq);
foreach $prereq (sort keys %{$self->{PREREQ_PM}}) {
- my $eval = "use $prereq $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq}";
+ my $eval = "require $prereq";
eval $eval;
- if ($@){
- warn "Warning: prerequisite $prereq $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} not found";
-# Why is/was this 'delete' here? We need PREREQ_PM later to make PPDs.
-# } else {
-# delete $self->{PREREQ_PM}{$prereq};
+
+ if ($@) {
+ warn "Warning: prerequisite $prereq $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} not found.\n" unless $self->{PREREQ_FATAL};
+ $unsatisfied{$prereq} = 'not installed';
+ } elsif ($prereq->VERSION < $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} ){
+ warn "Warning: prerequisite $prereq $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} not found. We have"
+ . ($prereq->VERSION || 'unknown version') unless $self->{PREREQ_FATAL};
+ $unsatisfied{$prereq} = $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} ? $self->{PREREQ_PM}->{$prereq} : 'unknown version' ;
}
}
-# if (@unsatisfied){
+ if (%unsatisfied && $self->{PREREQ_FATAL}){
# unless (defined $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::useCPAN) {
-# print qq{MakeMaker WARNING: prerequisites not found (@unsatisfied)
-# Please install these modules first and rerun 'perl Makefile.PL'.\n};
+ my $failedprereqs = join ', ', map {"$_ $unsatisfied{$_}"} keys %unsatisfied;
+ die qq{MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found ($failedprereqs)
+ Please install these modules first and rerun 'perl Makefile.PL'.\n};
# if ($ExtUtils::MakeMaker::hasCPAN) {
# $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::useCPAN = prompt(qq{Should I try to use the CPAN module to fetch them for you?},"yes");
# } else {
# require CPAN;
# CPAN->import(@unsatisfied);
# } else {
-# die qq{prerequisites not found (@unsatisfied)};
+# die qq{prerequisites not found (@unsatisfied)};
# }
# warn qq{WARNING: prerequisites not found (@unsatisfied)};
-# }
+ }
if (defined $self->{CONFIGURE}) {
if (ref $self->{CONFIGURE} eq 'CODE') {
- $self = { %$self, %{&{$self->{CONFIGURE}}}};
+ %configure_att = %{&{$self->{CONFIGURE}}};
+ $self = { %$self, %configure_att };
} else {
Carp::croak "Attribute 'CONFIGURE' to WriteMakefile() not a code reference\n";
}
}
if ($self->{PARENT}) {
$self->{PARENT}->{CHILDREN}->{$newclass} = $self;
- foreach my $opt (qw(CAPI POLLUTE)) {
+ foreach my $opt (qw(POLLUTE PERL_CORE)) {
if (exists $self->{PARENT}->{$opt}
and not exists $self->{$opt})
{
}
}
}
+ my @fm = grep /^FIRST_MAKEFILE=/, @ARGV;
+ parse_args($self,@fm) if @fm;
} else {
parse_args($self,split(' ', $ENV{PERL_MM_OPT} || ''),@ARGV);
}
else {
$pthinks =~ s!/Config\.pm$!!; $pthinks =~ s!.*/!!;
}
- print STDOUT <<END;
+ print STDOUT <<END unless $self->{UNINSTALLED_PERL};
Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the architecture
they are running on.
Perl thinks: [$pthinks]
$v =~ tr/\n/ /s;
push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# $key => $v";
}
+ undef %initial_att; # free memory
+
+ if (defined $self->{CONFIGURE}) {
+ push @{$self->{RESULT}}, <<END;
+
+# MakeMaker 'CONFIGURE' Parameters:
+END
+ if (scalar(keys %configure_att) > 0) {
+ foreach $key (sort keys %configure_att){
+ my($v) = neatvalue($configure_att{$key});
+ $v =~ s/(CODE|HASH|ARRAY|SCALAR)\([\dxa-f]+\)/$1\(...\)/;
+ $v =~ tr/\n/ /s;
+ push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# $key => $v";
+ }
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ push @{$self->{RESULT}}, "# no values returned";
+ }
+ undef %configure_att; # free memory
+ }
# turn the SKIP array into a SKIPHASH hash
my (%skip,$skip);
}
sub WriteEmptyMakefile {
- if (-f 'Makefile.old') {
- chmod 0666, 'Makefile.old';
- unlink 'Makefile.old' or warn "unlink Makefile.old: $!";
- }
- rename 'Makefile', 'Makefile.old' or warn "rename Makefile Makefile.old: $!"
- if -f 'Makefile';
- open MF, '> Makefile' or die "open Makefile for write: $!";
- print MF <<'EOP';
+ Carp::croak "WriteEmptyMakefile: Need even number of args" if @_ % 2;
+ local $SIG{__WARN__} = \&warnhandler;
+
+ my %att = @_;
+ my $self = MM->new(\%att);
+ if (-f "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old") {
+ chmod 0666, "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old";
+ unlink "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old" or warn "unlink $self->{MAKEFILE}.old: $!";
+ }
+ rename $self->{MAKEFILE}, "$self->{MAKEFILE}.old"
+ or warn "rename $self->{MAKEFILE} $self->{MAKEFILE}.old: $!"
+ if -f $self->{MAKEFILE};
+ open MF, '>', $self->{MAKEFILE} or die "open $self->{MAKEFILE} for write: $!";
+ print MF <<'EOP';
all:
clean:
test:
EOP
- close MF or die "close Makefile for write: $!";
+ close MF or die "close $self->{MAKEFILE} for write: $!";
}
sub check_manifest {
perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib
This will install the module's architecture-independent files into
-~/lib, the architecture-dependent files into ~/lib/$archname/auto.
+~/lib, the architecture-dependent files into ~/lib/$archname.
Another way to specify many INSTALL directories with a single
parameter is PREFIX.
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~
-This will replace the string specified by $Config{prefix} in all
-$Config{install*} values.
+This will replace the string specified by C<$Config{prefix}> in all
+C<$Config{install*}> values.
Note, that in both cases the tilde expansion is done by MakeMaker, not
-by perl by default, nor by make. Conflicts between parameters LIB,
-PREFIX and the various INSTALL* arguments are resolved so that
-XXX
+by perl by default, nor by make.
+
+Conflicts between parameters LIB,
+PREFIX and the various INSTALL* arguments are resolved so that:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+setting LIB overrides any setting of INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLARCHLIB,
+INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEARCH (and they are not affected by PREFIX);
+
+=item *
+
+without LIB, setting PREFIX replaces the initial C<$Config{prefix}>
+part of those INSTALL* arguments, even if the latter are explicitly
+set (but are set to still start with C<$Config{prefix}>).
+
+=back
If the user has superuser privileges, and is not working on AFS
-(Andrew File System) or relatives, then the defaults for
+or relatives, then the defaults for
INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLSCRIPT, etc. will be appropriate,
and this incantation will be the best:
make perl
That produces a new perl binary in the current directory with all
-extensions linked in that can be found in INST_ARCHLIB , SITELIBEXP,
+extensions linked in that can be found in INST_ARCHLIB, SITELIBEXP,
and PERL_ARCHLIB. To do that, MakeMaker writes a new Makefile, on
UNIX, this is called Makefile.aperl (may be system dependent). If you
want to force the creation of a new perl, it is recommended, that you
internal variables and get different results. It is worth to mention,
that make(1) also lets you configure most of the variables that are
used in the Makefile. But in the majority of situations this will not
-be necessary, and should only be done, if the author of a package
+be necessary, and should only be done if the author of a package
recommends it (or you know what you're doing).
=head2 Using Attributes and Parameters
=over 2
-=item AUTHOR
-
-String containing name (and email address) of package author(s). Is used
-in PPD (Perl Package Description) files for PPM (Perl Package Manager).
-
=item ABSTRACT
One line description of the module. Will be included in PPD file.
for a line in the POD matching /^($package\s-\s)(.*)/. This is typically
the first line in the "=head1 NAME" section. $2 becomes the abstract.
+=item AUTHOR
+
+String containing name (and email address) of package author(s). Is used
+in PPD (Perl Package Description) files for PPM (Perl Package Manager).
+
=item BINARY_LOCATION
Used when creating PPD files for binary packages. It can be set to a
and the values portion of the XS attribute hash. This is not
currently used by MakeMaker but may be handy in Makefile.PLs.
-=item CAPI
-
-[This attribute is obsolete in Perl 5.6. PERL_OBJECT builds are C-compatible
-by default.]
-
-Switch to force usage of the Perl C API even when compiling for PERL_OBJECT.
-
-Note that this attribute is passed through to any recursive build,
-but if and only if the submodule's Makefile.PL itself makes no mention
-of the 'CAPI' attribute.
-
=item CCFLAGS
String that will be included in the compiler call command line between
Old name for INST_SCRIPT. Deprecated. Please use INST_SCRIPT if you
need to use it.
-=item INST_LIB
-
-Directory where we put library files of this extension while building
-it.
-
=item INST_HTMLLIBDIR
Directory to hold the man pages in HTML format at 'make' time
Directory to hold the man pages in HTML format at 'make' time
+=item INST_LIB
+
+Directory where we put library files of this extension while building
+it.
+
=item INST_MAN1DIR
Directory to hold the man pages at 'make' time
=item INST_SCRIPT
Directory, where executable files should be installed during
-'make'. Defaults to "./blib/bin", just to have a dummy location during
+'make'. Defaults to "./blib/script", just to have a dummy location during
testing. make install will copy the files in INST_SCRIPT to
INSTALLSCRIPT.
=item LIB
-LIB can only be set at C<perl Makefile.PL> time. It has the effect of
+LIB should only be set at C<perl Makefile.PL> time but is allowed as a
+MakeMaker argument. It has the effect of
setting both INSTALLPRIVLIB and INSTALLSITELIB to that value regardless any
+explicit setting of those arguments (or of PREFIX).
+INSTALLARCHLIB and INSTALLSITEARCH are set to the corresponding
+architecture subdirectory.
=item LIBPERL_A
=item MAN3PODS
-Hashref of .pm and .pod files. MakeMaker will default this to all
- .pod and any .pm files that include POD directives. The files listed
-here will be converted to man pages and installed as was requested
-at Configure time.
+Hashref that assigns to *.pm and *.pod files the files into which the
+manpages are to be written. MakeMaker parses all *.pod and *.pm files
+for POD directives. Files that contain POD will be the default keys of
+the MAN3PODS hashref. These will then be converted to man pages during
+C<make> and will be installed during C<make install>.
=item MAP_TARGET
=item NEEDS_LINKING
-MakeMaker will figure out, if an extension contains linkable code
+MakeMaker will figure out if an extension contains linkable code
anywhere down the directory tree, and will set this variable
-accordingly, but you can speed it up a very little bit, if you define
+accordingly, but you can speed it up a very little bit if you define
this boolean variable yourself.
=item NOECHO
=item NO_VC
-In general any generated Makefile checks for the current version of
+In general, any generated Makefile checks for the current version of
MakeMaker and the version the Makefile was built under. If NO_VC is
set, the version check is neglected. Do not write this into your
Makefile.PL, use it interactively instead.
string containing all object files, e.g. "tkpBind.o
tkpButton.o tkpCanvas.o"
+(Where BASEEXT is the last component of NAME, and OBJ_EXT is $Config{obj_ext}.)
+
=item OPTIMIZE
Defaults to C<-O>. Set it to C<-g> to turn debugging on. The flag is
Perl binary for tasks that can be done by miniperl
+=item PERL_CORE
+
+Set only when MakeMaker is building the extensions of the Perl core
+distribution.
+
=item PERLMAINCC
The call to the program that is able to compile perlmain.c. Defaults
=item PERL_ARCHLIB
-Same as above for architecture dependent files
+Same as for PERL_LIB, but for architecture dependent files.
+
+Used only when MakeMaker is building the extensions of the Perl core
+distribution (because normally $(PERL_ARCHLIB) is automatically in @INC,
+and adding it would get in the way of PERL5LIB).
=item PERL_LIB
Directory containing the Perl library to use.
+Used only when MakeMaker is building the extensions of the Perl core
+distribution (because normally $(PERL_LIB) is automatically in @INC,
+and adding it would get in the way of PERL5LIB).
+
+=item PERL_MALLOC_OK
+
+defaults to 0. Should be set to TRUE if the extension can work with
+the memory allocation routines substituted by the Perl malloc() subsystem.
+This should be applicable to most extensions with exceptions of those
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+with bugs in memory allocations which are caught by Perl's malloc();
+
+=item *
+
+which interact with the memory allocator in other ways than via
+malloc(), realloc(), free(), calloc(), sbrk() and brk();
+
+=item *
+
+which rely on special alignment which is not provided by Perl's malloc().
+
+=back
+
+B<NOTE.> Negligence to set this flag in I<any one> of loaded extension
+nullifies many advantages of Perl's malloc(), such as better usage of
+system resources, error detection, memory usage reporting, catchable failure
+of memory allocations, etc.
+
+=item PERLRUN
+
+Use this instead of $(PERL) or $(FULLPERL) when you wish to run perl.
+It will set up extra necessary flags for you.
+
+=item PERLRUNINST
+
+Use this instead of $(PERL) or $(FULLPERL) when you wish to run
+perl to work with modules. It will add things like -I$(INST_ARCH)
+and other necessary flags.
+
=item PERL_SRC
Directory containing the Perl source code (use of this should be
library. A libscan() method can be used to alter the behaviour.
Defining PM in the Makefile.PL will override PMLIBDIRS.
+(Where BASEEXT is the last component of NAME.)
+
+=item PM_FILTER
+
+A filter program, in the traditional Unix sense (input from stdin, output
+to stdout) that is passed on each .pm file during the build (in the
+pm_to_blib() phase). It is empty by default, meaning no filtering is done.
+
+Great care is necessary when defining the command if quoting needs to be
+done. For instance, you would need to say:
+
+ {'PM_FILTER' => 'grep -v \\"^\\#\\"'}
+
+to remove all the leading coments on the fly during the build. The
+extra \\ are necessary, unfortunately, because this variable is interpolated
+within the context of a Perl program built on the command line, and double
+quotes are what is used with the -e switch to build that command line. The
+# is escaped for the Makefile, since what is going to be generated will then
+be:
+
+ PM_FILTER = grep -v \"^\#\"
+
+Without the \\ before the #, we'd have the start of a Makefile comment,
+and the macro would be incorrectly defined.
+
=item POLLUTE
Release 5.005 grandfathered old global symbol names by providing preprocessor
-macros for extension source compatibility. As of release 5.006, these
+macros for extension source compatibility. As of release 5.6, these
preprocessor definitions are not available by default. The POLLUTE flag
specifies that the old names should still be defined:
perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
Please inform the module author if this is necessary to successfully install
-a module under 5.006 or later.
+a module under 5.6 or later.
=item PPM_INSTALL_EXEC
desired version is the value. If the required version number is 0, we
only check if any version is installed already.
+=item PREREQ_FATAL
+
+Bool. If this parameter is true, failing to have the required modules
+(or the right versions thereof) will be fatal. perl Makefile.PL will die
+with the proper message.
+
+Note: see L<Test::Harness> for a shortcut for stopping tests early if
+you are missing dependencies.
+
+Do I<not> use this parameter for simple requirements, which could be resolved
+at a later time, e.g. after an unsuccessful B<make test> of your module.
+
+It is I<extremely> rare to have to use C<PREREQ_FATAL> at all!
+
+=item PREREQ_PRINT
+
+Bool. If this parameter is true, the prerequisites will be printed to
+stdout and MakeMaker will exit. The output format is
+
+$PREREQ_PM = {
+ 'A::B' => Vers1,
+ 'C::D' => Vers2,
+ ...
+ };
+
+=item PRINT_PREREQ
+
+RedHatism for C<PREREQ_PRINT>. The output format is different, though:
+
+ perl(A::B)>=Vers1 perl(C::D)>=Vers2 ...
+
=item SKIP
-Arryref. E.g. [qw(name1 name2)] skip (do not write) sections of the
-Makefile. Caution! Do not use the SKIP attribute for the neglectible
-speedup. It may seriously damage the resulting Makefile. Only use it,
+Arrayref. E.g. [qw(name1 name2)] skip (do not write) sections of the
+Makefile. Caution! Do not use the SKIP attribute for the negligible
+speedup. It may seriously damage the resulting Makefile. Only use it
if you really need it.
+=item TEST_LIBS
+
+The set of -I's necessary to run a "make test". Use as:
+$(PERL) $(TEST_LIBS) -e '...' for example.
+
=item TYPEMAPS
Ref to array of typemap file names. Use this when the typemaps are
( $VERSION ) = '$Revision: 1.222 $ ' =~ /\$Revision:\s+([^\s]+)/;
$FOO::VERSION = '1.10';
*FOO::VERSION = \'1.11';
+ our $VERSION = 1.2.3; # new for perl5.6.0
but these will fail:
local $VERSION = '1.02';
local $FOO::VERSION = '1.30';
+(Putting C<my> or C<local> on the preceding line will work o.k.)
+
The file named in VERSION_FROM is not added as a dependency to
Makefile. This is not really correct, but it would be a major pain
during development to have to rewrite the Makefile for any smallish
{ANY_TARGET => ANY_DEPENDECY, ...}
+(ANY_TARGET must not be given a double-colon rule by MakeMaker.)
+
=item dist
{TARFLAGS => 'cvfF', COMPRESS => 'gzip', SUFFIX => '.gz',
{LINKTYPE => ''}
with Pre-5.0 MakeMakers. Since version 5.00 of MakeMaker such a line
-can be deleted safely. MakeMaker recognizes, when there's nothing to
+can be deleted safely. MakeMaker recognizes when there's nothing to
be linked.
=item macro
=item make distclean
does a realclean first and then the distcheck. Note that this is not
-needed to build a new distribution as long as you are sure, that the
+needed to build a new distribution as long as you are sure that the
MANIFEST file is ok.
=item make manifest
C<WriteMakefile()>. The string is split on whitespace, and the result
is processed before any actual command line arguments are processed.
+=item PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
+
+If set to a true value then MakeMaker's prompt function will
+always return the default without waiting for user input.
+
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
=head1 AUTHORS
Andy Dougherty <F<doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>>, Andreas KE<ouml>nig
-<F<A.Koenig@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE>>, Tim Bunce <F<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>>.
-VMS support by Charles Bailey <F<bailey@newman.upenn.edu>>. OS/2
-support by Ilya Zakharevich <F<ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>>. Contact the
-makemaker mailing list C<mailto:makemaker@franz.ww.tu-berlin.de>, if
-you have any questions.
+<F<andreas.koenig@mind.de>>, Tim Bunce <F<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>>. VMS
+support by Charles Bailey <F<bailey@newman.upenn.edu>>. OS/2 support
+by Ilya Zakharevich <F<ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>>.
+
+Contact the MakeMaker mailing list <F<makemaker@perl.org>> if you have
+any questions.
+
+Send patches and bug reports to <F<perlbug@perl.org>>.
=cut
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