Malte S. Stretz wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 20:44 CET Michael G Schwern wrote:
Here's the standard work arounds:
1) Don't bother with the distinction between bin and sbin (its kinda
arbitrary IMHO) just put everything in bin.
I once tried to abuse INST_BIN for installations to sbin (as that one isn't
used anyway). Which resulted in loads of nasty hacks, in the end I just
told the packagers "if you want to have the dameon in sbin, move it
manually" :)
2) Instead of putting config files in /etc, make the config files a
.pm file and install it like one. See Net::Config as an example.
/etc is one of the cases. App can have DATADIR, LOGDIR and other.
If that doesn't work for you, have a look at the current Mail::SpamAssassin
Makefile.PL. It's horrible, it's huge, but it works with /etc, even guesses
reasonable defaults.
Just a thought something similar could be integrated into standalone
module like Module::Install::Application(or something else). I don't
think that I can do it.
[...]
As a final note, if you're finding MakeMaker too hard to customize try
Module::Build.
Cheers,
Malte
