[Module::Build] Re: Installing arbitrary files with Module::Build

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

Hi Andrew,

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Thanks,

  -Ken

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 04:14  PM, Andrew J. Korty wrote:

> Greetings.  I've been trying to decide whether to use Module::Build
> for a new project I'm working on.
>
> One thing that's very difficult with MakeMaker is installing files
> other than scripts and modules.  I often want to install configuration
> files in /etc, Mason components in the document root, etc.  I had been
> doing this with MakeMaker by overriding the method that produces the
> install target and substituting commands to install files to other
> destinations.  Can Module::Build do this more elegantly?
>
> I also wonder if Module::Build can help me with another problem
> brought about by a recent change in MakeMaker.  Although I can still
> specify custom parameters that may be passed via environment variables
> when executing Makefile.PL, it will no longer let me pass my own
> custom parameters to WriteMakefile.  I do that for things like Mason
> component roots.  We need to know the component root at install time
> so we can install the components there, but we also need it at run
> time to create the ApacheHandler object.  So I'd like to be able to
> pass it just once to WriteMakefile,
>
> -- 
> Andrew J. Korty, Principal Security Engineer, GCIA, GCFA
> Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
> Indiana University