Re: How to tell EU::MM to install a pure-perl module into an architecture-specific location

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Re^2: How to tell EU::MM to install a pure-perl module into an architecture-specific location by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 23, 2022 at 10:50 UTC
Thanks for the pointer tobyink. I get the impression that this section of the EU::MM documentation is telling me what I need to know, but I can't make any sense of the table that it includes: make install make alone puts all relevant files into directories that are named + by the macros INST_LIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_SCRIPT, INST_MAN1DIR and INST_MAN3DIR. All these default to something below ./blib if you a +re not building below the perl source directory. If you are build +ing below the perl source, INST_LIB and INST_ARCHLIB default to ../../ +lib, and INST_SCRIPT is not defined. The install target of the generated Makefile copies the files fo +und below each of the INST_* directories to their INSTALL* counterpart +s. Which counterparts are chosen depends on the setting of INSTALLDIR +S according to the following table: INSTALLDIRS set to perl site vendor PERLPREFIX SITEPREFIX VENDORPREFIX INST_ARCHLIB INSTALLARCHLIB INSTALLSITEARCH INSTALLVENDOR +ARCH INST_LIB INSTALLPRIVLIB INSTALLSITELIB INSTALLVENDOR +LIB INST_BIN INSTALLBIN INSTALLSITEBIN INSTALLVENDOR +BIN INST_SCRIPT INSTALLSCRIPT INSTALLSITESCRIPT INSTALLVENDOR +SCRIPT INST_MAN1DIR INSTALLMAN1DIR INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR INSTALLVENDOR +MAN1DIR INST_MAN3DIR INSTALLMAN3DIR INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR INSTALLVENDOR +MAN3DIR The INSTALL... macros in turn default to their %Config ($Config{installprivlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, etc.) counterpa +rts. You can check the values of these variables on your system with perl '-V:install.*' [download] If I can just get 'make install' to install into `INSTALLSITEARCH` (which is mentioned in the table), then that will be fine. But neither `INSTALLDIRS => 'perl',` nor `INSTALLDIRS => 'site',` nor `INSTALLDIRS => 'vendor',` will do that, and everything else I try turns out to be either ineffective or just plain rubbish. Can anyone tell from that (supposed) "table" just what argument I need to give to `WriteMakefile()` ? Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How to tell EU::MM to install a pure-perl module into an architecture-specific location by hippo (Archbishop) on Sep 23, 2022 at 12:43 UTC
This looks to have some effect at least. It may be what you are after. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; use Config; my %MF = ( macro => { INSTALLSITELIB => $Config{installsitearch} } ); WriteMakefile (%MF); exit;` [download] 🦛	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to tell EU::MM to install a pure-perl module into an architecture-specific location by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 24, 2022 at 03:18 UTC
macro => { INSTALLSITELIB => $Config{installsitearch} } Thanks hippo - that `WriteMakefile()` argument does exactly what I want. And "macro" is a valid argument going all the way back to EU-MM-6.17 (and probably beyond) - so it should certainly suffice for a module that (intentionally) doesn't work on perls older than 5.22.0. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]