use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; my $mod = my $pm = "Parse::DebControl"; $pm =~ s/::/\//g; $pm = "lib/$pm.pm"; unless(-e "CHANGES") { open CHANGES,">>CHANGES"; print CHANGES "Temp CHANGES file\n"; close CHANGES; } WriteMakefile( 'NAME' => $mod, 'VERSION_FROM' => $pm, # finds $VERSION 'PREREQ_PM' => { 'Test::More' => '0.45', 'IO::Scalar' => '2.104', 'Compress::Zlib' => '0', 'LWP::UserAgent' => '0', 'LWP::Simple' => '0', }, 'dist' => { #Auto-generate the CHANGES file PREOP => "podselect $pm -section CHANGES | pod2text -w 1000 -i 5 | perl -pe \"s/^\s+(Version.*)/\$1/g;\" > CHANGES", }, ($] >= 5.005 ? ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.005 ( ABSTRACT_FROM => $pm, # retrieve abstract from module AUTHOR => 'Jay Bonci ') : ()), );