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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm | 27 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm index 78175f9aaf..9680348c27 100644 --- a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm +++ b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm @@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ sub full_setup { PERL_MALLOC_OK NAME NEEDS_LINKING NOECHO NORECURS NO_VC OBJECT OPTIMIZE PERL PERLMAINCC PERL_ARCHLIB PERL_LIB PERL_SRC PERM_RW PERM_RWX - PL_FILES PM PMLIBDIRS POLLUTE PPM_INSTALL_EXEC PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT PREFIX + PL_FILES PM PM_FILTER PMLIBDIRS POLLUTE PPM_INSTALL_EXEC + PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT PREFIX PREREQ_PM SKIP TYPEMAPS VERSION VERSION_FROM XS XSOPT XSPROTOARG XS_VERSION clean depend dist dynamic_lib linkext macro realclean tool_autosplit @@ -239,7 +240,6 @@ sub full_setup { dir_target libscan makeaperl needs_linking perm_rw perm_rwx subdir_x test_via_harness test_via_script - ]; push @MM_Sections, qw[ @@ -1673,6 +1673,29 @@ Defining PM in the Makefile.PL will override PMLIBDIRS. (Where BASEEXT is the last component of NAME.) +=item PM_FILTER + +A filter program, in the traditional Unix sense (input from stdin, output +to stdout) that is passed on each .pm file during the build (in the +pm_to_blib() phase). It is empty by default, meaning no filtering is done. + +Great care is necessary when defining the command if quoting needs to be +done. For instance, you would need to say: + + {'PM_FILTER' => 'grep -v \\"^\\#\\"'} + +to remove all the leading coments on the fly during the build. The +extra \\ are necessary, unfortunately, because this variable is interpolated +within the context of a Perl program built on the command line, and double +quotes are what is used with the -e switch to build that command line. The +# is escaped for the Makefile, since what is going to be generated will then +be: + + PM_FILTER = grep -v \"^\#\" + +Without the \\ before the #, we'd have the start of a Makefile comment, +and the macro would be incorrectly defined. + =item POLLUTE Release 5.005 grandfathered old global symbol names by providing preprocessor |