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TorgoX (1933)

TorgoX
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Journal of TorgoX (1933)

Monday September 30, 2002
12:27 AM

Making CPAN dists

[ #8087 ]
Dear Log,
So I wrote this little dealy today for automating the process of building the dist of a CPAN module. It seems to work. Does it look right?

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Time-stamp: "2002-09-29 23:13:56 MDT"

die "What to make?" unless -e "Makefile.PL";

my %preexisting;
@preexsting{ glob('*.tar.gz') } = ();

system( "perl Makefile.PL && make manifest && make disttest && make dist && make clean" ) and die;

my @new = grep !exists $preexisting{$_}, glob('*.tar.gz');
die "No new .tar.gz's !?!" unless @new;
die "Too many new .tar.gz's !!" unless @new == 1;
my $new = $new[0];
system(" chmod a+r $new && mv $new ~/public_html/ ");
exit;
__END__


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  • First of all (from merlyn) system "perl Makefile.PL" and die; system "make", qw(manifest disttest dist clean) and die; or !system "perl Makefile.PL" or die; !system "make", qw(manifest disttest dist clean) or die; to make it more parsable for atleast my mind.
    --
    sky
  • doing a make disttest followed by a make dist on the perls I use puts the entire disttest directory into the distro, doubling its size and making it build twice when you unpackage it. I'm not sure if/when that bug was fixed.

  • I have always created my CPAN tarballs by hand, so I was delighted to try your script and I like it (apart from the 'preexsting' typo ;). I suppose you might replace:

    system(" chmod a+r $new && mv $new ~/public_html/ ");

    with something like:

    chmod(0644, $new) or die "chmod '$new' failed: $!";
    rename($new, "$ENV{HOME}/public_html/$new") or die "rename '$new' failed: $!";

    One annoyance I noticed is that it seems to put MANIFEST.bak and Makefile.old into the tarball. Also, is it correct practice to

    --
    /-\
    • Oops, I forgot to mention my MAKEFILE.SKIP file, which I think I inherited from someone...
      ^MANIFEST\.bak$
      Makefile(\.old)?$
      \.rej$
      CVS
      blib
      ~

      Maybe I should add "^dist" and/or "^disttest" to that?

      I like your (and everyone's) suggestions. I'll work them in.

      • TorgoX, I think you meant MANIFEST.SKIP and not MAKEFILE.SKIP. I have got it working nicely now, though I found the MANIFEST.SKIP file to be tempermental in the extreme. This is my MANIFEST.SKIP:

        ^MANIFEST\.
        ^Makefile$
        \.old$
        ^blib/

        For a while, I was plagued by the "double distribution" problem mentioned by Matts, but I deleted my MANIFEST file and have not seen this problem since (I am running Perl 5.6.1).

        --
        /-\
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