Dear Monks,

I have a project at work that involves a large C++ program which calls embedded perl and uses many perl modules in other directories. The boss required that the project be testable with a ExtUtils::MakeMaker "make test". He also required that I start with files generated by h2xs.

I have created a dummy module 'Xyz.pm' in the working directory, and forced MakeMaker to ignore everything else, like this: 

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
# the contents of the Makefile that is written.
WriteMakefile(
    'NAME'        => 'Xyz',
    'VERSION_FROM'    => 'Xyz.pm',  # finds $VERSION
    'PREREQ_FATAL'      => 1,         # force prereq checks
    'PREREQ_PM'        => {
        'DateTime'                             => '0', #  X ? # 
        # more prerequisites here, generated with /scandeps.pl
    }, # e.g., Module::Name => 1.1
    'PREFIX' => '~/xyz_dummy',  # shanghai install for now
);

package MY;

# Drastic fix for pulling the world into blib: eliminate all but Xyz.p
+m
sub libscan {
    my $self = shift;
    my $file = shift;
    return $file !~ /Xyz\.pm/ ? 0 : $self->SUPER::libscan($file);
}

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I put several test scripts (using Test::More) down into a "t/" directory, and now I can use the regular "perl Makefile.PL; make; make test" to do testing without disturbing the rest of the project.

Does anyone have suggestions on how I could improve this testing environment? Thanks.

In reply to MakeMaker for testing only by tall_man

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