Hi folks,

I have a bunch of code in CVS that I develop on my workstation , and when properly tested put into production.

The putting into production part is currently more painful that it should be. Typically, two or three source files have been touched, so they get copied over from the workstation and put in the right place. This sucks :-)

Although perl can do everything, it seems that this job is ideally suited for Make.

I'm having trouble finding either good documentation on how to do this make, or good example Makefiles. Everything is oriented toward the C compile/link/install type methodology, where I just want the latter.

Does anyone have a simple makefile which essentially just copies files around, which I could hack on?

Alternatively (and here is where this node gets back on the perl track), is MakeMaker suitable? I've played with it briefly, but it seems to be more geared to creating a Makefile for a system wide perl module, rather than (in this case) a set of files which all live in a single directory and are a complete self-contained system.

In reply to A Makefile for installing a set of perl scripts and modules by Tardis

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