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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: > What's the best place to add such functionality? I'd prefer to add it > to one of the Perl modules and call that code in the 'make' target, > rather than trying to write the whole thing in the makefile. Work from the version of MakeMaker on CPAN. It's an alpha, so the CPAN shell won't find it. http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-5.47_01.tar.gz You'd be working on ExtUtils::MakeMaker and ExtUtils::MM_Unix primarily. The particularly tricky bit is finding the 'diff' program and dealing with the multitude of different versions and switches on different platforms. For example, many versions of diff don't support the prefered -u option. > p.p.s. - I initially sent this message to makemaker@franz.ww.tu-berlin.de , > but the message bounced with the error "no route to host". makemaker@perl.org is the new mailing list. -- Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job OneThread Previous | Thread Next