Creating a distribution with several .pm files

Ovid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Okay, I'm stumped. I've read the h2xs docs and the ExtUtils::MakeMaker docs and I know I must be missing something blindingly obvious.

I have a series of Perl modules that I've downloaded and I would like to clean them up, write tests, and create a proper distribution. How do I tell h2xs that I need several .pm files? Alternatively, what do I add to Makefile.PL that will allow this?

The modules have a structure like this:


Foo/Bar.pm
Foo/Bar/Baz.pm
Foo/Bar/Quux.pm
etc...

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: Creating a distribution with several .pm files by samtregar (Abbot) on Jun 04, 2002 at 04:16 UTC
I don't think you can get h2xs to do anything about it, but it's easy to do manually. Just create a lib/ directory and construct your tree there. Then edit Makefile.PL and change references to Bar.pm to lib/Foo/Bar.pm. Finally, adjust MANIFEST accordingly and you're good to go. -sam PS: I cover this topic in my book. Buy a copy and support the artist of this message!	[reply]
Re: Creating a distribution with several .pm files by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Jun 04, 2002 at 07:14 UTC
You can also have a look at the excellent writeups How to make a CPAN Module Distribution and ExtUtils::ModuleMaker, which both mentions some ways (and some shortcuts) on how to do this... although, if I recall correctly, h2xs has no such ability in itself. :) You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply]
Re: Creating a distribution with several .pm files by Sweeper (Pilgrim) on Jun 04, 2002 at 06:05 UTC
Part of the answer: in `Foo/Makefile.PL`, include a line: Writemakefile(NAME => 'Bar', blah blah blah DIR => [ 'Bar' ] ) And then, create a `Foo/Bar/Makefile.PL`. But in this new file, how do you specify both `Baz.pm` and `Quux.pm`? Guess we have to look further in the docs.	[reply]
Re: Creating a distribution with several .pm files by ides (Deacon) on Jun 04, 2002 at 13:57 UTC
Here is what I've always done: h2xs -X -A Foo::Bar h2xs -X -A Foo::Bar::Baz h2xs -X -A Foo::Bar::Quux Then assuming that 'Bar' is your package ( i.e. Baz AND Quux will always be built and installed together ) you need to do a 'make manifest' in ./Foo/Bar MakeMaker will automagically traverse the directory structure on build, the 'make manifest' simply makes it easier to package ./Foo/Bar/* into a .tar.gz with a 'make dist' You won't have a ./Foo/Bar.pm because h2xs creates a directory for each module. Hope this helps. ----------------------------------- Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org> http://frank.wiles.org	[reply]