On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:02:06PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I've got questions about the MakeMaker portion of the patch.
>
> "doc_inst_perl" target may get confused in absense of Makefile.PL;
>
> Under what conditions is there no Makefile.PL?
Here is how the static build is performed (in perlos2.pod=README.os2,
section "Building a binary distribution", part "7"):
After building dynamic binary distribution, we go to the CPAN build
directory (with huge limit, so it contains all the built modules
expanded), and create a tiny Makefile.PL in the root:
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
WriteMakefile NAME => 'dummy';
Running this Makefile.PL with a statically linked perl will create
static versions of all the distributions in the subdirectories.
But some of the distributions are broken, and contain no
Makefile.PL.
This confuses a particular branch of MakeMaker (do not know more
details, but this chunk fixed it ;-).
> enable parallel build of subdirs (useful due to the way static
> perl binary distribution is created).
> Could you explain this further? The code does not appear to be
changing the building of subdirs but the testing of them. Is the
idea to add a new subdirs-test target so that parallel make has a
target to parallelize thus allowing the top tests and subdir test to
run simultaneously?
I assume there are many (100s?) of subdirs. This allows testing them
in parallel. Since many tests include sleep()ing, this may speed up
the development cycle a lot.
> How is this related to static builds?
See above. When I do a static build, there is much more than a
hundred of subdirectories...
Hope this helps,
Ilya
