Re: Invoking Build.PL/Makefile.PL from automake?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Tyler MacDonald wrote:

>         I'm working on moving a project over to automake/libtool right now.
> There's perl modules in some subdirectories with their own Makefile.PL's.
>
>         Is there already some m4 macros around that will let me build perl
> modules from automake? Or any other projects doing the same thing I could
> learn from? I could write my own macros or add raw makefile snippets but if
> a well rounded solution already out there, I'd rather use that.

Interfacing between Automake and ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a bloody 
disaster.  They do not support the same paradigm or targets. 
MakeMaker does weird things like having 'make clean' remove the 
Makefile.  MakeMaker is inconsistent between Perl releases.  Some 
things which worked stop working when new MakeMaker features are 
added.

I first implemented this interfacing in ImageMagick and it has been 
carried on into GraphicsMagick.

Bob
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