-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/9/10 6:01 AM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: > Many dozens of perl5.10.0 variants of perlmodule packages don't build > on 10.6/i386 (i.e., the 32-bit side of the "universal" system-perl) > because they all clone the same CompileScript for Build.PL that does > not pass the single-arch tricks. I'm fixing them because they're > broken. I have contacted many of theirs' maintainers several times > over the past few weeks, but it's all still broken. I'm sick of not > being able to use half of the perl world on the one platform that we > tend to say is best supported. > > We really need an intrinsic support for this...a huge swath of CPAN > uses Module::Build, so fink should support it cleanly just like we do > with MakeMaker (Makefile.PL). The goal is an explicit trigger for > alternate default CompileScript and InstallScript for Type:perl. > Which of these new .info fields do y'all like? > > 1. PerlType: that takes values of "makemaker" or "module::build", that > defaults to "Makefile.PL". > > 2. DefaultScript: that takes values of "autotools" "makemaker" > "module::build"? Bonus: extensible to any other new build systems we > feel like supporting, and lets packages get the type:perl magic even > if they use autotools (or vice versa). > > 3. Automatically detect presence of Build.PL and switch to that mode > insead of MakeMaker.PL. Bad: some distros include both, so wouldn't > allow maintainer to choose which one works best without going back to > hardcoding everything. This was proposed years ago on tracker. > > 4. [insert your idea here] > > dan >
2) sounds pretty good to me. Having more options "under the hood" means fewer maintainer tricks, which may fail on upgrade, to get things to build. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxf/ZEACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/FeQCfeRApQj/X/fAt/rEAOr2VvXUv aGEAn0yOWZBSvL9BPtMy808JlA3jHArq =emjD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
