[Module::Build] Data::Package::*, File::ShareDir and the 'auto/' subdir

[Steffen S. <sch...@we...>]

Hi!

Once upon a time, I already asked a similar question, where to install
non-perl files. I then solved it by installing files with an own
suffix into @INC near the module.

This time I want to install rather large amounts of data.

I could install them again beside the module, but in the mean time I
read about a "more official" sounding way in the documentation of the
modules

  Data::Package (::SQLite)
  File::ShareDir
  Module::Install::Share

which would all solve this problem by installing data in the 'data/'
subdir near the module and finding them there at runtime.

By looking into the source, it seems, Module::Install:Share simply
uses a MakeMaker variable INST_AUTODIR (which itself is just a
relative subdir to INST_LIBDIR).

I want to use this way (i.e., Data::Package::SQLite with data files in
'auto/'), but install them with Module::Build.

==> The question:

    How can I detect the 'auto/' subdir at install time and define
    rules in Build.PL that install, for instance, all files from a
    'share/' subdir into the corresponding 'auto/' subdir?


(Greeti+Tha)nX
Steffen
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Steffen Schwigon <sch...@we...>
Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>