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author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-05-27 12:04:58 -0600 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-05-27 12:12:24 -0600 |
commit | b83fde9727ea95eba21d0aae5013700aef5909e6 (patch) | |
tree | e250c59661d8a276072577b55d14630762876114 /make_ext.pl | |
parent | 2fecb8b26fdcfb76a86d6db016179c94c1006a0e (diff) | |
download | perl-b83fde9727ea95eba21d0aae5013700aef5909e6.tar.gz |
make_ext.pl: Add some general comments
I found myself recently not knowing how to deal with the build system.
Having these would have helped.
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diff --git a/make_ext.pl b/make_ext.pl index 317534027e..b9630633cb 100644 --- a/make_ext.pl +++ b/make_ext.pl @@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ my $ext_dirs_re = '(?:' . join('|', @ext_dirs) . ')'; # '# XXX hack for dependency # ordering' # below. # +# The basic logic is: +# 1) if there's a Makefile.PL in git for the module, use it. and call make +# 2) If not, auto-generate one (normally) +# 3) unless the auto-generation code figures out that the extension is +# *really* simple, in which case don't. This will be for pure perl +# modules, and all that is needed to be done is to copy from the source +# to the dest directories. +# # It may be deleted in a later release of perl so try to # avoid using it for other purposes. |