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From:
Gerard Goossen
Date:
January 25, 2009 05:54
Subject:
Re: a plan for ext/
Message ID:
20090125135436.GB8014@ostwald.wibaut
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:46:56PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> [...]
> 
> 4: Add support for directories in ext/ that don't have Makefile.PL
> 
> For now I was just thinking of "faking up" a Makefile.PL to avoid needing
> to create lots of near-identical instances, that all differ from their CPAN
> counterparts, because they need to special-case MAN3PODS for the core.
> Logically this could be extended to also support Build.PL, but I'm not sure
> what in core that would benefit.

Adding "INSTALLMAN3DIR=none" to the Makefile.PL arguments in make_ext make
setting the MAN3POD in the Makefile.PL superfluous. And then they could be kept identical to 
their CPAN version.

> [...]

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