[rt-devel] Site Lib

[Michael Grubb]

Forgive me I know this is off topic, if you like please reply off list.
As I am not a habitual perl contributor I'm not familiar with the 
easiest/fastest way of generating a Makefile.PL file.
I would like to adopt this method as we will have to wait until 3.0
for a "standard" local lib directory.  

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 15:44, darren chamberlain wrote:
> * Jim Meyer <purp at wildbrain.com> [2002-06-12 12:54]:
> > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 18:58, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > > Your perl site_lib exists for this sort of purpose. I'd recommend
> > > packaging addon modules with h2xs....
> > >
> > > 3.0 will likely have a local/lib which corresponds to local/WebRT
> >
> > We keep thinking about implementing this here; as we considered it
> > last, we decided that it *should* be as easy as creating the directory
> > and adding a "use lib" statement to everything in the bin directory.
> > (and then we solve the problem some other way ;)
> >
> > Is it not that simple?
>
> It is, more or less, as long as youo grok how Perl handles package
> naming.
>
> I've gotten in the habit of putting local modifications into the RTx::
> namespace, and making standard perl-ish tarballs out of the stuff.  The
> path to RT is a Makefile.PL parameter:
>
>   $ perl Makefile.PL RT=/opt/rt2
>   $ make
>   # make install
>
> Makefile.PL then does:
>
>   my %ARGV = map { split /=/, $_, 2 } grep /=/, @ARGV;
>   unshift @INC, $ARGV{'RT'};
>
> I also add a use lib $ARGV{'RT'} to the top of the RTx:: modules as well
> (they get preprocessed during the install step, using the %ARGV).
>
> (darren)