in reply to Module::Build compatibility woes

Have a look at Module::Build::Compat. It lets you generate a Makefile.PL which in turn writes a makefile that delegates back to Build.PL.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: Module::Build compatibility woes
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Dec 07, 2003 at 13:01 UTC
    I highly reccomend against that (it's a foolish idea and it just doesn't work, for example, make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 won't translate to perl Build test verbose=1 and the list goes on).

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