Module::Install::GetProgramLocations

A Module::Install extension that allows the user to interactively specify the location of programs needed by the module to be installed. The specified program will be converted to a full path and validated. If version information is supplied, the version number of the program will also be checked.

MODULE DEPENDENCIES

To use this module, you will need to install:

• File::Spec
• Cwd
• Sort::Versions
• Module::Install

To test this module, you will need to install:

• IO::CaptureOutput
• Test::More

INSTALLATION

To install this package, change to the directory where you unarchived this distribution and type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

You can install this package into a non-default location by appending one of the following to the "perl Makefile.PL" command:

• "PREFIX=/installation/path" (for installation into a custom location),
• "INSTALLDIRS=site" (for installation into site-specific Perl directories)
• "INSTALLDIRS=perl" (for installation into standard Perl directories).

If you make the installation into your own directory, then remember that you must tell perl where to search for modules before trying to 'use' them. For example:

use lib '/home/userid/lib';
use ext::Module::Install;
...
%info = ...;
%new_info = Get_Program_Locations(\%info);

INSTALLATION PROBLEMS

If "make test" fails, run

make test TEST_VERBOSE=1

and see which test(s) are failing. Please email the results to the address below, or submit a bug report on the project website as described in the section REPORTING BUGS below.

For other bugs, see the section REPORTING BUGS below.

DOCUMENTATION

Just "perldoc Module::Install::GetProgramLocations". After installation on Unix systems, you can also do "man Module::Install::GetProgramLocations".

HOMEPAGE

The CPAN Page:
http://search.cpan.org/~dcoppit/Module-Install-GetProgramLocations/

The Google Code page:
http://code.google.com/p/module-install-getprogramlocations/

REPORTING BUGS

http://code.google.com/p/module-install-getprogramlocations/issues/entry

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) David Coppit. All rights reserved, save those granted by the license.

LICENSE

This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file LICENSE in the distribution, http://www.opensource.org/gpl-license.html, and http://www.opensource.org/.

AUTHOR

David Coppit <david@coppit.org>