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

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 01/19/04 12:28, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> 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.

Maybe I missed the point of your original message. Is this _package_ a 
perl module or a perl application? If the latter, then you should not be 
using any of the values that Module::Build provides to select an 
installation point. On my debian system, perl is in '/usr/bin/perl', but 
the FHS says application should NOT install in '/usr/' which is what 
M::B will do. M::B does not have any support for installing applications 
(yet?).

Randy.