Mailing List Archive: *::Makefile.pm - module to parse Makefiles

*::Makefile.pm - module to parse Makefiles

Dec 21, 1995, 1:54 PM

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I have started playing with a module to parse Makefiles in perl,
probably worth adding to module list.

It will be OO with at least two levels of class i.e Makefile and
Makefile::Target.

I have several applications in mind :

1. Utilities for MANIFEST generation
A. Exclude files that can be 'made'
B. Include all files needed to make specified targets.
2. Recurse down into hierachical MakeMaker makefiles, qualifying
targets and dependancies.
3. 'make' script
4. Network-wide parallel make (how fast can I build Tk...?),
although this will require other modules as well.

A sub-set of GNU make extensions will probably be supported.

Suggestions for where it fits in module name space accepted,
but assume it might be Make::Makefile or ExtUtils::Makefile.

Re: [MM] *::Makefile.pm - module to parse Makefiles [ In reply to ]

k at anna

Dec 21, 1995, 8:24 AM

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nick> I have started playing with a module to parse Makefiles in perl,
nick> probably worth adding to module list.

Great.

nick> It will be OO with at least two levels of class i.e Makefile and
nick> Makefile::Target.

nick> I have several applications in mind :

nick> 1. Utilities for MANIFEST generation
nick> A. Exclude files that can be 'made'
nick> B. Include all files needed to make specified targets.
nick> 2. Recurse down into hierachical MakeMaker makefiles, qualifying
nick> targets and dependancies.
nick> 3. 'make' script
nick> 4. Network-wide parallel make (how fast can I build Tk...?),
nick> although this will require other modules as well.

5. 'Safe' make script, that allows only particular trusted commands
being executed from a Makefile.

nick> A sub-set of GNU make extensions will probably be supported.

nick> Suggestions for where it fits in module name space accepted,
nick> but assume it might be Make::Makefile or ExtUtils::Makefile.

This work deserves an own 'Make' namespace with a Make.pm.

andreas

Re: [MM] *::Makefile.pm - module to parse Makefiles [ In reply to ]

kjahds at kjahds

Dec 21, 1995, 9:12 PM

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On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

> I have started playing with a module to parse Makefiles in perl,
> probably worth adding to module list.
>
> It will be OO with at least two levels of class i.e Makefile and
> Makefile::Target.
>
> I have several applications in mind :
>
> 1. Utilities for MANIFEST generation
> A. Exclude files that can be 'made'
> B. Include all files needed to make specified targets.
> 2. Recurse down into hierachical MakeMaker makefiles, qualifying
> targets and dependancies.
> 3. 'make' script
> 4. Network-wide parallel make (how fast can I build Tk...?),
> although this will require other modules as well.
>
> A sub-set of GNU make extensions will probably be supported.
>
> Suggestions for where it fits in module name space accepted,
> but assume it might be Make::Makefile or ExtUtils::Makefile.

Sounds vaguely like it should be in a separate branch, like Tools::Make,
or somesuch. Wherever a perl-built CPP would go, it should probably go
next to it.

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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)