On 04/10/02 10:59 +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > While we're on a period of rapid releases, I thought I'd bring up a little > point that's annoying but should be really easy to fix...Inline's > interactive install. > > Inline stops half way though an install and asks me if I want Inline::C > installed or not. This is annoying for us as we install our servers > automatically, and this means when we're installing Inline we have to log > in after a while and hit return. > > Ideas?
perl Makefile.PL < /dev/null Good Makefile.PL-s use ExtUtils::MakeMaker::prompt for all questions. All questions have a default. If there is no STDIN, the default will be used. Automated installs should kill STDIN. This works for all CPAN modules that ask annoying questions. Cheers, Brian
