in reply to Perl-specific automation tools?

What is Perl's answer to GNU Make?
None I guess, since GNU make isn't a challenge to perl - they work together, hand in hand and each on it's specifics. 'ant' is the Java make, perl doesn't need such a thing.

As for tools - well, there's h2xs, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, PAR, Module::Build just to name a few, and the whole bunch of standard C and unix tools.

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