Is anybody aware of a generic perl configure script à la configure.sh? Something a user could interact with a --help, not requiring knowledge of the existence of or about ExtUtils::MakeMaker? Has anybody else ever wanted this? I've searched google and CPAN, but mostly come across reference to the perl binary configuration system. If such a thing doesn't exist I'll (eventually) hammer something out, and it will (of course) be extensible ;-) The intent is for use in a mixed (script + module) or script only install. The process would go somethingk like
  1. perl configure.pl
  2. make
  3. make test
  4. make install
All of the magic being in the first step. It'd use Getopt::Long to accept values for the various MakeMaker options, call any user-defined hooks. Write Makefile.PL, and invoke it yield the custom Makefile. Scripts would have their shebang lines set to the local binary location, etc. etc.

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In reply to RFC: configure.pl by belg4mit

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