CPAN spec file generator needs testing, feedback

[Warren Togami]

Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:25:02PM -0700, Alan wrote:
> 
>>What I am going to look at is if the code actually finds those
>>dependencies.  I agree that the requires need to be there.  The question
>>I have is if it actually finds them all.
> 
> 
> If it isn't in Makefile.PL, the script won't find it...  (And even
> there, I figured out last night that Cache::Cache's Makefile.PL magic
> and my "parsing" magic don't play nice together.  :-)
> 
> 
>>The other issue is places where the CPAN module needs a library that is
>>not a CPAN module.  (Called via XS.)  I don't know if your code covers
>>that case.  (CPAN.pm does not.)
> 
> 
> To be honest, I hadn't even thought of checking for required
> libraries/headers.  I'll put some thought into how to do that...
> 

I haven't checked your script (as I know very little perl), but be sure 
that it doesn't explicitly add Requires that are caught by rpm's auto 
dep thing.

Warren