1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/makemeta b/Porting/makemeta
index 9889c8e81a..e1a95adccd 100644
--- a/Porting/makemeta
+++ b/Porting/makemeta
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!./perl -w
+# this script must be run by the current perl to get perl's version right
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use lib "Porting";
 
+use File::Basename qw( dirname );
+
 my $file = "META.yml";
 die "$0: will not override $file, delete it first.\n" if -e $file;
 
@@ -13,7 +16,23 @@ my @CPAN  = grep { $Modules{$_}{CPAN} } keys %Modules;
 my @files = map { get_module_files($_) } @CPAN;
 my @dirs  = grep { -d $_ } map { get_module_pat($_) } @CPAN;
 
-my $files = join '', map { "    - $_\n" } sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } @files;
+my %dirs;
+@dirs{@dirs} = ();
+
+my $files = join '', map { "    - $_\n" }
+  grep {
+    my $d = $_;
+    while(($d = dirname($d)) ne "."){
+      last if exists $dirs{$d};
+    }
+
+    # if $d is "." it means we tried every parent dir of the file and none
+    # of them were in the private list
+    
+    $d eq "."; 
+  }
+  sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } @files;
+
 my $dirs  = join '', map { "    - $_\n" } sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } @dirs;
 
 open my $fh, ">$file" or die "Can't open $file: $!";