[Chicago-talk] Specifying a minimum version in Makefile.PL

brian d foy brian.d.foy at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 07:52:22 PST 2006


On 1/13/06, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I specify the minimum version of a prerequisite module?  In my case my
> module needs
>
> >= Inline::Java .50_93

Put this in your PREREQ_PM section of the call to WriteMakeFile


> Also, what would I perldoc or read to learn more about the contents and
> options of Makefile.PL?

The Makefile.PL is just a Perl script, so you do the same things that
you would do for any other Perl script. :)

In mosts case, the magic usually comes from ExtUtils::MakeMaker.


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