(Edited about 45 minutes after initial submission)

Greetings.

It has been a long time since I had time on my hands to pursue more knowledge. Unfortunately, I have that time now. :-( That aside...

Some years ago I posted a module to CPAN, along with a command-line utility that would use that module. As per Sam Tregar's sound advice I started with h2xs and created the usual hierarchy. But it did not include a directory for script files that are not part of the module. So here is the directory structure with incriminating names changed.

 
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 RPaskudniak None     0 Nov 21  2013 blib
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 RPaskudniak None     0 Nov 20  2013 lib
-rw-r--r--  1 RPaskudniak None 24074 Dec 11  2013 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 RPaskudniak None  1297 Mar  3  2011 Makefile.PL
-rwxr-xr-x  1 RPaskudniak None   172 Nov 20  2013 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r--  1 RPaskudniak None   568 Nov 20  2013 META.yml
-rw-r--r--  1 RPaskudniak None   500 Dec 11  2013 MYMETA.yml
-rw-r--r--  1 RPaskudniak None     0 Dec 11  2013 pm_to_blib
-rwxr-xr-x  1 RPaskudniak None 15000 May  6  2012 README
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 RPaskudniak None     0 Feb  5  2014 scripts <<<***>>>
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 RPaskudniak None     0 Nov 20  2013 t

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Note that scripts directory: h2xs did not create that; I manually created that. And somehow, when I ran the final make install, the utility program ended up in the right place, /usr/local/bin.

I have no recollection of how I got that to work. I likely asked someone but I just don't recall what I did right. I don't think I had to mess with the Makefile.

So my bottom line question is:

Is there an option to h2xs that makes allowances for a bin or scripts directory whence to place a stub for a Perl program related to the module? Or lacking such an option, is there an alternative to h2xs that does make such an allowance?

This humble memory challenged peasant begs a memory kick-start to get restarted; I'm planning a module that will need at least 5 utilities that I can think of.

This humble peasant (with some grand delusions) thanks y'all.

In reply to Creating a bin or script directory with h2xs by rpaskudniak

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