make_ext.pl: Add some general comments

I found myself recently not knowing how to deal with the build system.
Having these would have helped.
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Karl Williamson 2019-05-27 12:04:58 -06:00
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@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ my $ext_dirs_re = '(?:' . join('|', @ext_dirs) . ')';
# '# XXX hack for dependency # ordering'
# below.
#
# The basic logic is:
# 1) if there's a Makefile.PL in git for the module, use it. and call make
# 2) If not, auto-generate one (normally)
# 3) unless the auto-generation code figures out that the extension is
# *really* simple, in which case don't. This will be for pure perl
# modules, and all that is needed to be done is to copy from the source
# to the dest directories.
#
# It may be deleted in a later release of perl so try to
# avoid using it for other purposes.