On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:09:17PM +0000, Robin Szemeti wrote:
>
> whilst getting to grips with h2xs this week (which is nowhere near as
> scary as i thought) I read a really good tutorial on building perl
> modules that started with:
>
> 1) use h2xs
> 2) use h2xs
> 3) USE H2XS
>
> I think it twas in html .. it might have been in the mod_perl
> documentation.
>
> the long and short of it is: I have bleeding forgotten where the f it is
> and despite searcing can I find it? .. nope. and its beginning to bug me
> .. lots.
Well, the ExtUtils::MakeMaker man page contains similiar words of
wisdom, but I don't think it's really what you're after...
How To Write A Makefile.PL
The short answer is: Don't.
Always begin with h2xs.
Always begin with h2xs!
ALWAYS BEGIN WITH H2XS!
even if you're not building around a header file, and even
if you don't have an XS component.
-Dom
