Re: perl Makefile.PL and interactivity of a build

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 06:21:50PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Hi,
>  I'm trying to build an rpm of some perl modules.
> 
> The problem is this the perl Makefile.PL insists on asking some
> questions that I can't seem to get it NOT ask during the build.
> 
> so I'm wondering if it is the best practice to include a patch to the
> makefile to quell the interactivity or to leave it interactive during
> the rpm -ba perlmodule.spec (ick) or is there another preferred way of
> handling it.

Depending on the amount of interactivity, I often do

perl Makefile.PL << GO_SYSIN_DD
yadda
tyadda
GO_SYSIN_DD

Hacky but expedient. Ripping out the interactivity and replacing
with CLI switches is better, but is often impossible to achieve.

73 de Jeff

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