> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul LeoNerd Evans [mailto:leon...@leonerd.org.uk]
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:17 PM
> To: Ovid
> Cc: module-authors@perl.org
> Subject: Re: "a lot of silliness" about Module::Build
>
> I find this too. Of all my modules, any of them that don't have XS code
> in them simply provide a dual Build.PL / Makefile.PL as written by
> M::B's create_makefile_pl => 'traditional' setting.
I'm bundling a normal Makefile.PL for now but I think that I'll eventually
use that option. But I always use M::B to build distributions and never
duplicate that part in Makefile.PL. It's only there for compatibility
nothing else.
> It only becomes even vaguely complicated on a few of my XS ones, where
> M::B expects to find lib/Foo/Bar.xs whereas EU::MM wants only Bar.xs
>
> This random inconsistency annoys me - IMHO M::B's behaviour here is
> much more preferable, for reasons of being able to find the code, of
> making the file unique in case I want more than one,...
I've experienced the same issue in one of my modules, but that's easy to fix
by adding this:
xs_files => { 'Bar.xs' => 'lib/Foo/Bar.xs' },
then you can use a regular Makefile.PL too.
