Ken Williams wrote: > > On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: > >> >> What about adding a new flag? e.g. if the main Makefile.PL says: >> >> WriteMakefile( >> PrivateCompartment => 1, >> ... >> ) >> >> then it'll provide one and all children will inherit it unless they >> explicitly override it? > > > It's difficult to add new flags to MakeMaker, because you have to ensure > that all the people installing your module have a version of MakeMaker > that supports it. Perhaps "difficult" isn't the right word - more like > "futile". > If you don't mind putting a MakeMaker dependency in the distribution, > though, it can be done.
that's right, I didn't think about that :( > Really, it would be nice to have separate "build_dependency" items, like > a real package manager. > > Stas, for your problem, a really ugly but workable solution might be to > fork the main process in each of the subdirs' Makefile.PL's, oder? Currently I simply shut off the warnings for redefine, so I've a solution. I was just thinking more globally aloud :) Thanks Ken -- __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
