NAME

wml::mod::MakeMaker - A Makefile generator

SYNOPSIS

 <write-makefile [attributes]>

DESCRIPTION

This include file provides an easy way to write a Makefile to distribute your own WML modules. It is inspired by the ExtUtils::MakeMaker Perl module.

Default targets

make all: This is the default target. It will build all include files and their documentation.
make install: Install include files and documentation in the locations given by ``wml -V2''.
make clean: Remove files generated by make.
make distclean: Like make clean, plus remove the Makefile too.
make dist: Build a distribution. Should only be used by the module maintainer. If there is a MANIFEST file, then the list of files to include is taken from this file. Otherwise the tarball contains all source files, plus MakeMaker.wml, Makefile.wml, shtool and README if these files exist.

To build the Makefile, all targets are put in separate buffers during pass 3, and those buffers are diverted by pass 5. You can override this defaukt target by redefining buffer contents. Buffer names are explicit:

    MK_ALL MK_INSTALL MK_CLEAN MK_DISTCLEAN MK_CONFIG MK_RELEASE

Defining new targets

The MK_USER is empty and devoted to this task.

ATTRIBUTES

The first three attributes are mandatory.

package

The name of the package

version

Its version number

modules

List of modules to build and install. This is a space separated list of filenames. Modules should reside in a sub-directory to be compliant with actual file hierarchy. For instance, the declaration

     modules="math/log.tmpl math/exp.tmpl"

tells that after compilation, there are two modules which are math/log.tmpl and math/exp.tmpl. This modules will be installed to LibDir/include/math/log.tmpl and LibDir/include/math/exp.tmpl.

These modules will then be called in a WML file by

Source files for these modules are obtained by replacing the suffix by .src.

src-ext

Defines an alternate suffix for the source files.

man-ext

Section number of the manual in which man files are put. Default is 3.

extradistfiles

Space separated list of files to include in a distribution. By default, all source files plus MakeMaker.wml, Makefile.wml, README and shtool are included in a distribution.

EXAMPLE

 <write-makefile
    package="log"
    version="3.14"
    modules="math/log.tmpl"
    source-ext="exp"
 >

This will build the tmpl::math::log include module from the math/log.exp source file. This source file will also produce the tmpl::math::log(3) manpage.

NOTES

Please do _not_ use a .wml suffix for your modules, they should be reserved for official WML modules shipped with WML. You may instead put your initials or anything else.

AUTHOR

 Denis Barbier
 barbier@engelschall.com

REQUIRES

 Internal: P1, P2, P3, P5
 External: --