Nick Ing-Simmons wrote pmake, a Perl implementation of make. I don't know where to find it; a manual CPAN search didn't turn up anything, and there's another same-named "pmake" out there that's a parallel-implementation of make which returns more Google hits. Update:It uses the Make.pm module, which is available on CPAN.

Cons is a more "purely Perl" make substitute. The configuration files are Perl scripts that call an API to establish targets and dependencies. Dependency analysis and builds are all carried out by a single top-level executable, not through recursive invocation of the tool.

makepp (a.k.a. make++) is a Perl re-implementation of make that preserves Makefile syntax, but uses the Cons build-engine model of a single top-level process.

Lastly, Rich Miller created a utility named "perlmake" for IDX Systems Corp., but I don't think it's been publicly released.

In reply to RE: Make vs. Perl by knight
in thread Make vs. Perl by tedv

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