[Module::Build] Re: Module::Build and installing in non-standard locations

[Matisse E. <ma...@ma...>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> There are a number of ways to do this. The most simple is:
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> 
> use File::HomeDir;
> my $conf_dir = File::Spec->catdir( File::HomeDir->my_home, '.Foo' );
> 
> use Module::Build;
> my $builder = Module::Build->new(
>      module_name  => 'Foo',
>      license      => 'perl',
> 
>      conf_files => {
>          'etc/httpd.conf' => 'conf/httpd.conf',
>      },
> 
>      install_path => {
>          'conf' => $conf_dir,
>      },
> );
> 
> $builder->add_build_element( 'conf' );
> 
> $builder->create_build_script();
> 
> __END__

I haven't been able to get this approach to work.

The file(s) from the new build_element *do* get copied into blib, so in 
the above example   httpd.conf   gets copied to  blib/conf/httpd.conf
but, when i do     Build install    it does not get installed.

I looked in   _build/build_params   and the   install_path  hash
does contain an entry for my new build element(s), but nothing gets 
installed there when I run  ./Build install  (and  ./Build fakesinstall  
doesn't show the files either.)

-M