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Re: Dual-Build Modules (What to do if both Makefile.PL and Build.PL exist)



-=| gregor herrmann, Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:56:20PM +0200 |=-
> On Fri, 08 May 2009 11:39:57 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > Practice, however shos that both work just fine. Is there a case when 
> > using Makefile.PL instead of Build.PL has caused problems?
> 
> It causes problem in the cases where Makefile.PL uses M:B:Compat, but
> that should be fixed anyway.

Indeed. "Fix the right problem" :)

> > > In this case, it means that Makefile.PL will not pick up things 
> > > like
> > > 'suggests' and 'recommends' and 'conflicts'. On the other hand, these
> > > can always be picked up by the debhelper scripts via META.yml. I,
> > er, debhelper has nothing to do with META :)
> 
> sub process_meta {} in lib/DhMakePerl.pm seems to disagree :)

Um, is dh-make-perl officially promoted to be part of debhelper? Did 
I miss the party? :)

-- 
dam

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