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

I've just recently started learning perl and want to make a distribution of a perl script I've written but when I run "perl Makefile.PL" it makes the Makefile but doesn't tarball the distribution .....

My Makefile.PL looks like this : 

# 
# Makefile.PL for script "if_archive" 
# 
# Filename :    Makefile.PL 
# Created :     18 March 2003
#

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

&WriteMakefile(
                NAME            => 'if_archive',
                EXE_FILES       => [ 'if_archive.pl' ],
                DISTNAME        => 'if_archive',
                VERSION_FROM    => 'if_archive.pl',
                PREREQ_PM       => {
                               'Class::Date'   => 0,
                               'Archive::Tar'  => 0,
                               'MIME::Lite'    => 0,
                                   },
      dist => {COMPRESS => 'gzip', SUFFIX => 'gz'},
              );

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can anyone point me in the right direction or a URL that can ?

Thanks

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Re: "perl Makefile.PL" does not create tarball?
by jasonk (Parson) on Mar 20, 2003 at 17:42 UTC

    perl Makefile.PL just creates the Makefile for you, but that Makefile contains targets you can use to create distributions. Some of those targets include:

    • tardist - make a .tar.gz
    • zipdist - make a .zip
    • uutardist - make a uuencoded .tar
    • shdist - make a self-extracting shell archive

    So make tardist will give you a .tar.gz as you expect (or just make dist, as tardist is the default dist).

    We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!
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Re: Newbie Question : Makefile.PL
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Mar 20, 2003 at 16:30 UTC

    If you're on a Unix box typing make dist once you have a Makefile should get you a gzipped tar ball.

    Take a look at ExtUtils::MakeMaker for full details, especially the section on "Distribution Support".

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