[Rt-devel] FW: [rt-users] Help with Module::Install::RTx

[Kelly F. Hickel]

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> > > From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> > > [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf
> > > Of Kelly F. Hickel
> > >  Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:05 AM
> > >  To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> > >  Subject: [rt-users] Help with Module::Install::RTx
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone used this to build an extension to RT?  I need some
help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd like to release the next version of Statistics with this, but
have
> a
> > few
> > > problems, some of which may be because I've never used
> Module::Install,
> > nor
> > > ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 1)  How do I tell it what goes into the dist?  I put Statistics.pm
in
> > > lib/RTx, and that seemed to work, but when I put all the files for
> > > /opt/rt3/local/html in html/RTx it added them to the manifest
(Yay),
> but
> > > told me the files in just plain html (as opposed to html/RTx)
didn't
> > exist.
> > > Do I have to have two copies of them?
> > No. you just have to put your html files into html dir. if you want
> > RTx prefix for all your files then put them into html/RTx, but I
think
> > you also have to add some callbacks to html/Callbacks.

>From my testing, this isn't true.  If I put a file in html, say
foo.html, then it goes into the distribution file, but does NOT get
installed when you do make install.  This is OK with me, as I probably
need to rename Statistics to RTx::Statistics anyway.

> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2) I'd like all the files to either go to /opt/rt3/share or
> > /opt/rt3/local,
> > > as decided by the user installing the package, how do I do that?
> > Not implemented. Patches are wellcome.
> > Current layout is fixed and described at
> >
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-RTx/lib/Module/Install/RTx.pm
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 3) After installing my first cut of the dist, "make uninstall"
said
> that
> > it
> > > was unsafe and would tell me what it would do, but failed to find
the
> > > packing list in /usr/lib/perl, not too surprising, as the the
"make
> > install"
> > > put the packing list in
> > > /opt/rt3/local/lib/auto/RTx/Statistics/.packlist
> > Oh, never tried to uninstall.
> [Kelly F. Hickel] OK, Well, I looked into the uninstall first, and
here's
> what I found.  The Makefiles generated are broken, I suspect it's not
a
> but in Module::Install::RTx, but one of the modules it uses, but I
can't
> be sure.
> 
> The UNINSTALL make variable is incorrect, and the generated
> uninstall_from_sitedirs rule is not specifying the directory that the
> install rule used. Below is a diff showing what I had to change in the
> generated Makefile to get uninstall to work.  Does anyone have any
idea
> how to change the generation of these rules? I can't seem to figure it
> out.
> 
> 222c222
> < UNINSTALL = $(PERLRUN) "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" -e uninstall
> ---
> > UNINSTALL = $(PERLRUN) "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" -e
'uninstall(@ARGV);'
> 609c609
> <       $(NOECHO) $(UNINSTALL)
$(SITEARCHEXP)/auto/$(FULLEXT)/.packlist
> ---
> >       $(NOECHO) $(UNINSTALL)
> $(INSTALLSITEARCH)/auto/$(FULLEXT)/.packlist

I've narrowed this down to two consistency bugs in MM_Unix.pm from
ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  I've posted a description to the makemaker mailing
list, but I'm not sure how active that project is anymore.

> 
> 
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Are there any good examples of using this? I couldn't seem to find
> any....
> > Browse any RT extions that is on the CPAN.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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