[Bioperl-l] Start of obsessive testing; Makefile too long

[Jason Stajich]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Ewan Birney wrote:

>
> I was planning to start obessive testing for getting towards 1.2 but...
> now we have gone over Digital UNIX's commandline rules in the Makefile
> system
>
>
> ecs1h[birney]50: make test
> Make: line too long.  Stop.
>
>
> (a) - What is the work around (I am using Perl 5.6.1 here). Probably:
>
>    o With latest ExtUtils::MakeMaker module installed SGI/IRIX should
>       not run into trouble running the makefile
>
This may be true - but we've gotten mixed reports on this end.

I think the right solution is to implementing our own methods in the
Makefile so that people don't need to upgrade their ExtUtils:

I believe we just need to fix

sub MY::pm_to_blib {}

perhaps as simple as copying the code from the 5.8.x versions of
MakeMaker?


See POD for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::MM_Unix
I never got around to trying to do this so I'm not 100% it is the best
soln.


We should look into whether or not to include IO::String in the
distro or if we just pkg it up in easy to get tarball for people?

>
>
> (b) - Given that this will now be hit both IRIX and Digital UNIX, is this
> the same on Solaris, Linux and Mac OSX - I will be testing OSX soon. Do we
> need to do something clever in the Makefile.PL and detect whether the
> right ExtUtils::MakeMaker is there? Hmmmm.

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Jason Stajich
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