Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk-Perl module building

[Dermot Musgrove <dermot glade perl connectfree co uk>]

"BrYan P. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Dermot Musgrove <dermot@glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a problem that Stas Bekman <sbekman@iname.com> has asked me 
> > about. He is not on the gtk-list so I am reporting it for him.
> >
> > He uses the CPAN shell to build and install modules but of course
> > Gtk-Perl only builds the top level module by default. Is there a way to
> > build the sub modules automatically? I don't know the CPAN shell but is
> > it possible to build the sub modules using that?
> >
> 
> CPAN.pmı doesn't understand building Gtk-Perl's sub modules. The old
> way to get it to work was to provide makepl args. This bit of code
> used to work for making sure LWP and Gtk-Perl were both installed:
> 
> if (eval "require CPAN;") {
>       use CPAN;
>       for $mod (qw (Gtk LWP)){
>         my $obj = CPAN::Shell->expand('Module',$mod);
>         print "$obj\n";
>         if ($mod =~ "Gtk") {
>         # configure CPAN to use Gtk-Perl's makefile.pl args
>           $foo = CPAN::Shell->o('conf', 'makepl_arg', '--with-gdkimlib 
> --with-gnome --with-gtkxmhtml --with-gnome-panel');
>         } else {
>         # clear the makefile args
>           $foo = CPAN::Shell->o('conf', 'makepl_arg', '');
>         }
>         $obj->install;
>       }
> 
> It's pretty neat to offer to install necessary modules automagically,
> saves the whack-a-mole you can end up playing with some perl programs'
> module dependencies.
> 
> But I know of no way to tell the CPAN module to recurse through
> Gtk-Perl's subdirectories doing the right thing.
Thanks for the help, I'll pass it on to him. I really should try it myself
as well :)

Regards, Dermot