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Re: How to run a C filter at build time?: msg#00021

Subject: Re: How to run a C filter at build time?
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:38:45AM -0700, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> >Otherwise the simplest thing to do is use ExtUtils::CBuilder to do the
> >compilation in your Makefile.PL rather than try to get MakeMaker do it.
>
> As a kludge-around, I was thinking of using the PL_FILES functionality 
> to have a template module .PL compile the filter and run it on the 
> template to generate the module .pm file.  I'll see if 
> ExtUtils::CBuilder suits.  

That doesn't sound like a kludge, it sounds like what PL_FILES is made for.


> Not that such a kludge will correctly track dependencies.

What dependencies?


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