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Wednesday February 12, 2003
08:55 PM

the endless joy of Makefiles

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Recently it was pointed out to me that I was being too slack in not supplying READMEs with my modules that I upload to CPAN. It's true, I'm hugely slack, but mostly because a README ends up as a terrible mishmash of the documentation you already carefully (or reluctantly) wrote somewhere else. (synopsis, dependencies, change histories)

Now I don't claim to be anything like the first person to do this, but I've just had the simple pleasure of crafting a make target and dirty little perl script to make this pain go away. I therefore present you with makereadme, as used in the fothercoming release of File::Find::Rule (and probably all my other modules too, as it makes me look more productive than I really am).

Enjoy.


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  • "sudo make install"

    Also it's often a good idea to include a brief note about using nmake for ActivePerl users.

    Not that I follow *any* of this advice myself you understand ;-)
    • Or even some tortuous boilerplate like:

        make install

      Note: you'll need to run the C<make install> step as a user with sufficient permission to write to the paths where perl modules are installed.   This may be root, so you'd do something like <su -c 'make install'> or <sudo make install>.

      Alternatively you want to read this guide on using non-standard install paths: L<http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_private>

      And so on and so on. At least you ge

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