Hi PerlMonks,

I wrote some modules of which some of them are platform dependent.

This is so far my manifest of it:

bin/sysscan
Changes
lib/System/Scanner.pm
lib/System/Scanner/AIX.pm
lib/System/Scanner/Linux.pm
lib/System/Scanner/Linux/RHEL.pm
lib/System/Scanner/Linux/SUSE.pm
Makefile.PL
MANIFEST
README
t/System-Scanner.t
[download]

The basis of this consists of the sysscan binary plus the Scanner.pm module. The rest is platform dependant. What I need is to create at least three, maybe five different modules out of it.

• One with everything inside (ok, easy - got that already)
• One with the base plus Linux plus RHEL plus Suse (Linux Package)
• One with the base plus AIX stuff (AIX Package)
• Nice would be base plus Linux plus RHEL (RHEL only package)
• Nice would be base plus Linux plus Suse (Suse only package)

This is because the next step is to make rpm packages out of it for different platforms.

I tried to figure out how to do this with ExtUtils::MakeMaker and searched for a solution, but it really fried my brain.

I learned that somehow the CONFIGURE attribute of the hash provided to WriteMakefile could be a solution, in that I could place a coderef in it that alters the hashref itself, but I after lots of google-loops and dark circles around my eyes I gave up.

I only can guess what it really does and how it works and I thought that before I jump at it doing lots of trial and error, I should take back a step and ask someone ...

Is there some way in Makefile.PL or options to accomplish this?

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