Re: [Module::Build] how about shared data

[Jaap K. <j.g...@st...>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:18:03 -0500 Randy W. Sims wrote:
: On 1/15/2004 11:35 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
: > Sory to bother you again, but what happens if I need to install
: > stuff into "/usr/share/$program_name" ? I know perl has no config
: > value for this but it seems rather essential for packages that
: > contain a complete program.
: 
: Have you read the section "How Installation Paths are Determined" in
: the Module::Build manpage? Be aware that not all platforms have a 
: '/usr/share/' directory structure to install into.

I read the man page and I'm also aware of the portability issues. I need
a place to install data files and this should default to "share" on unix
systems. I now added "share", "etc" and "docs" install paths to an
overloaded version of Module::Build. I don't really like this sollution
because I needed to modify M:B's internal data and consider it an ugly
way to do it (also no sure what happens with other versions of M:B). But
at least the user can modify them with a argument to Build.PL .

The real issue is that Config.pm doesn't support these kind of
installpaths, but I think it would be nice for Module::Build to supply
them, this could also solve part of the portability issues.


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