Hi Perl Monks,

I have a Makefile.PL which creates a module say 'My_Config.pm' (Makefile.PL prompts for user password and stores it in 'My_Config.pm)' under the lib directory using some predefined template.

Upon perl Makefile.PL && make the file 'My_Config.pm' is created under lib/ When performing make install the 'My_Config.pm' is not always installed. Even if the file contains changes, the file is not always installed.

I am using File::ShareDir::Install 'postamble';

Any hints on what may be the problem here?

TIA

Edit 1:

My_Config.tmpl

package My::Module::Name::My_Config;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Exporter;
our @ISA = 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT_OK = 'MY_PASSWORD';

our %EXPORT_TAGS =(CONSTANTS => ['MY_PASSWORD']);
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Makefile.PL

use strict;
use warnings;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakeFile(
    NAME   => 'My::Module::Name',
    AUTHOR => 'XYZ',
    VERSION_FROM => 'lib/My/Module/Name.pm'
);

package MY;
sub xs_o {
    my $pass = MM->prompt('Enter password');
    chomp($pass);

    my $tmpl = 'My_Config.tmpl';
    my $config = 'lib/My/Module/Name/My_Config.pm';

    return <<END;

all: myconfig

myconfig:
\tperl -e 'open(IN, "<" , "$tmpl"); open(OUT, ">", "$config"); while(<
+IN>) { print OUT $_; } close(IN); close(OUT);'
\tperl -e 'open(OUT, ">>", "$config"); print OUT "use constant MY_PASS
+WORD => qq($pass);\\n1;"; close(OUT);'

END
}

use File::ShareDir::Install 'postamble';
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