[Po4a-devel]Perl building system

[Martin Quinson]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:15:47PM +0200, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally had time to work on the unified perl building system. I attach 
> the changed files. You can now delete po/Makefile, po/bin/Makefile and 
> po/pod/Makefile. This is all done from the Build.PL script. The main 
> Makefile (also attached) is only a wrapper for the Build script.
> 
> This code needs a big cleanup, but at least it works :)

Thanks, now commited. 

> Now there's a little problem with META.yml:
> 1) if we leave it on the MANIFEST and don't distribute it, the Build 
>    script complains:
> 
> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>         META.yml
> Please inform the author.
> 
> 2) if we remove it from the MANIFEST, when doing the dist file it says:
> 
> $ make dist
> *** Did you forget to add META.yml to the MANIFEST?
> 
> May we put META.yml back to the CVS or is there a better solution?

No, this file has nothing to do in the CVS. I did ask Build.PL not to clean
it, and I asked the makefile to regenerate it before doing a dist. And I did
add this file to .cvsignore.


Thanks for your time,
Mt.

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