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The quick answer is "use the POD, Luke", to both. However, the POD for MakeMaker is terribly written. You should either have a VA.pm in the root of your source tarball, or have a Exporter/VA.pm, or a lib/Exporter/VA.pm, IIRC.

As far as the tests, have a t/yadda.pl that uses the Test::Harness output conventions, or a ./test.pl, IIRC. (OTOH, if you use ./test.pl, the output is ignored -- the tests will be run, but MM, and thus CPAN.pm, won't notice if the tests failed.)

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Re: Re: Makefile.PL even weirder on Windows
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jan 12, 2003 at 02:19 UTC
    You both are saying that the source project has various subdirectories, rather than the few files I have in one directory?

    I read about the testing tutorial and the module, but it didn't give the format of the expected output. But really the issue is that the auto-testing looks in a particular subdirectory. Or, you're saying that the file named "test.pl", rather than "test$_.perl" foreach (1..$n); will be seen but the output not automatically processed? Doesn't it (MM or CPAN) care about the exit code?!

    —John

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      The answer to all your questions is "yes". Seriously.

      If you have a file named ./test.pl, it will be run, and the results ignored by the Makefile (IIRC, of course -- read the disclaimer) (MM doesn't actualy run anything, it only writes a makefile. CPAN only runs the makefile). If there is a ./t/ subdirectory, it will be run via Test::Harness. See it's POD for details of the output format, or just use it's runtime functions (ok, ok_if, etc).

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