Problem File::ShareDir::Install

Swalif has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greets monks, I can't seem to figure out File::ShareDir::Install. Here is what I did..
1-created my module and put all my assets (.po files) in share/ dir.
2- In the MakeFile

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
use File::ShareDir::Install;

    install_share 'share';
    install_share dist => 'share';
    ##also tried this:
    install_share module => 'My::Module', 'share';
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3- In the module file:

use File::ShareDir ':ALL';
File::ShareDir::dist_file('My-Distribution', 'file.po');
#and
File::ShareDir::dist_file('My-Distribution', 'share/file.po');
#and later tried this
File::ShareDir::module_file("My::Module","file.po");
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all cases failed to locate the file.
4- Also I had some tests cases but it seems that the files will not be available before make install, so I skipped this for now.
thanks

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Re: Problem File::ShareDir::Install by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2012 at 14:17 UTC
Um, what documentation are you reading? Read the synopsis, you're missing the postamble patch -p1 -i Tshare.diff Read more... (1466 Bytes) $ perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=frackus Writing Makefile for Tshare Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json $ dmake install dmake: Warning: -- Target [blibdirs] was made but the time stamp has +not been updated. dmake: Warning: -- Target [config] was made but the time stamp has no +t been updated. cp share\file.txt blib\lib\auto\share\dist\Tshare\file.txt cp lib/Tshare.pm blib\lib\Tshare.pm dmake: Warning: -- Target [dynamic] was made but the time stamp has n +ot been updated. dmake: Warning: -- Target [pure_all] was made but the time stamp has +not been updated. Appending installation info to frackus\lib\perl5\MSWin32-x86-multi-thr +ead/perllocal.pod $ perl -Ifrackus/lib/perl5 -MTshare -e 1 frackus\lib\perl5\auto\share\dist\Tshare file.txt [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Problem File::ShareDir::Install by Swalif (Scribe) on Mar 14, 2012 at 16:31 UTC
Great many thanks, this solved the problem.	[reply]