Changeset c49365a9

Timestamp:

02/11/2016 01:50:48 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

d8ddab5

Parents:

cced370

Message:

More external perl modules for testsuites, and note that Test::MockModule uses Module::Build instead of the standard instructions.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@16941 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general/prog/perl-modules.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/prog/perl-modules.xml

@@ -134 +134 @@
  sometimes a good place to start, then for scripts look at any comments in the
  script, and if you get a package like Text::BibTeX with compiled progs and
- library, look at the comments in the code -->
+ library, look at the comments in the code
+
+ Also, for external modules where we link to CPAN without a current version,
+ prefer to use http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Name if that works, rather
+ than pointing to a maintainers home directory : the maintainer for a package
+ sometimes changes -->
+
 <sect1 id="perl-modules" xreflabel="Perl modules">
   <?dbhtml filename="perl-modules.html" ?>
@@ -191 +197 @@
 MD5 sum: &Archive-Zip-md5sum;</literallayout>
         <itemizedlist>
-          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/~gfranks/Test-MockModule/">Test::MockModule</ulink>
-(http://search.cpan.org/~gfranks/Test-MockModule/)</literallayout>
+          <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockModule/">Test::MockModule</ulink> - This uses the <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/>
+(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockModule/)</literallayout>
+            <itemizedlist>
+              <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/SUPER/">SUPER</ulink>
+(http://search.cpan.org/dist/SUPER/) (for the testsuite)</literallayout>
+                <itemizedlist>
+                  <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Identify/">Sub-Identify</ulink>
+(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Identify/)(for the testsuite)</literallayout>
+                  </listitem>
+                </itemizedlist>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
@@ -847 +863 @@
               <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Meta-Check/">CPAN::Meta::Check</ulink>
 (http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN::Meta::Check/) (for the testsuite)</literallayout>
+                <itemizedlist>
+<!-- FIXME : this duplicates the details for Test-Deep which is also needed by
+ Module-Metadata (below) : that (not _this_ one) can probably go after a
+ reasonable length of time -->
+                  <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Deep/">Test::Deep</ulink>
+(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test::Deep/) (for the testsuite)</literallayout>
+                  </listitem>
+                </itemizedlist>
               </listitem>
               <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Metadata/">Module::Metadata</ulink>

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -48 +48 @@
       <para>February 10th, 2016</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Add more external perl modules required by
+          the testsuites of other modules. Note that Test::MockModule
+          uses Module::Build.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Update to asymptote-2.36. Fixes