I've run into a problem with a module I'm writing for CPAN. Using Extutils::makeMaker, I have it install into /path/to/perl/modules/Foo.pm . It has some plugins which go into /path/to/perl/modules/Foo/Bar.pm, /path/to/perl/modules/Foo/blurp.pm etc.

Now the problem is how to avoid hardcoding /path/to/perl/module/Foo into Foo.pm? I discovered PM_FILTER and changed Foo.pm to say INST_LIBDIR/Foo and made a filter like this in Makefile.PL: 

'PM_FILTER' => 
  'perl -pe \"s|INST_LIBDIR|$(INST_LIBDIR)|g;\"'

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The problem is this changes to blib/lib/Foo .

Now I have 

'PM_FILTER' => 
  'perl -pe \"s|INST_LIBDIR|$(INSTALLVENDORLIB)|g;\"'

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which is more like what I want but obviously won't work if the user does a site, or private install.

So what should I do to solve this problem?

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In reply to How to make a module aware of where it is installed? by jaldhar

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