Re^4: Clean smoke-test install for Inline based modules using Inline::MakeMaker

Hammered? Its much ado about nothing

SmokeTesters Complain of Missing Dependencies Which a Module's Makefile.PL Requires

http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes

#!/usr/bin/perl --
BEGIN {
    unless( eval { require Inline::MakeMaker; 1; }  ){
        warn "Warning: prerequisite Inline::MakeMaker 0 not found.\n";
        exit 0;
    }
}
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#!/usr/bin/perl --
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker();
if(
    eval {
        require Inline::MakeMaker;
        1;
    }
) {
    *WriteMakefile = \Inline::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile;
} else {
    *WriteMakefile = \&ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile;
}


WriteMakefile(
...
    PREREQ_PM         => {
        'Inline::CPP' => 0.33,
        'Inline::MakeMaker' => 0,
        ...
    },
)
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But its a whole bunch of effort to avoid some Makefile.PL boilerplate (the essence of Inline::MakeMaker), or switching to Module::Install

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Re^5: Clean smoke-test install for Inline based modules using Inline::MakeMaker by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 15, 2011 at 10:10 UTC
Hammered? Its much ado about nothing Yeah, I feel much the same way - but I have some respect for the wishes of those who expect their modules to build straight out of the box in the cpan shell, no failures and no NA/UNKNOWN. The problem with your BEGIN{} block is that it doesn't tell the cpan shell to fetch and install the package that contains Inline::MakeMaker. If it was my module, that wouldn't bother me in the slightest, but many people expect better. The second attempt looks promising - it might even provide the desired behaviour. (Does it ? The thing is that, when it comes to finally build the module, it's Inline::MakeMaker, not ExtUtils::MakeMaker, that needs to be loaded by the Makefile.PL.) There's actually no need to specify Inline::MakeMaker in PREREQ_PM, as installing Inline::CPP will install Inline::MakeMaker. I think that might actually work !! But its a whole bunch of effort to avoid ... switching to Module::Install And well worth the effort, imo. (But, again, this is not necessarily a view shared by the perl community at large.) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^6: Clean smoke-test install for Inline based modules using Inline::MakeMaker by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2011 at 11:08 UTC
The second attempt looks promising - it might even provide the desired behaviour. (Does it ? ... AFAIK it should, I'm 90% that it will, but if it doesn't, this ought to fix it (should force make to rerun Makefile.PL with Inline::MakeMaker ) `END { if( not exist $INC{'Inline/MakeMaker.pm'} ){ $atime = $mtime = time + 10 ; utime $atime, $mtime, 'Makefile.PL'; } }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]