Greetings Monks. I'm working on the installation system I sketched out here some time ago. With some critical help from perrin, things are working really well.

My problem is that it's pretty slow, and I think a lot of that has to do with building man-pages I don't need. To explain, during the build phase around 75 Perl modules are built and installed using the usual 'perl Makefile.PL && make install' steps. LIB is set to where I want the compiled modules installed, and PREFIX is set to a junk box so I can throw out any binaries, man-pages or other refuse I don't need after the install is done.

I think I could make the build step at least twice as fast if I could convince ExtUtils::MakeMaker to not bother building man-pages from POD source. Does anyone know how to do that? A trip through the docs and source didn't give me anything obvious.

-sam

In reply to Can MakeMaker be convinced not to build man pages? by samtregar

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