Hi, I'm building a command line "to-do" CPAN module. The module will have some scripts that need to be installed in /usr/local/bin, for example. These scripts need to manipulate data files in /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/var, for example, which contain the application configuration and database of actual to-dos. I want the "/usr/local/etc" and "/usr/local/var" directories to be configurable during the "perl Makefile.pl; make" stage of installing the CPAN module.
I think that "/usr/local/etc" and "/usr/local/var" strings need to be hard coded into my scripts somehow. Right now I'm using the GNU ./configure; make; make install system and am using m4 macros @sysconfdir@, @localstatedir@ to modify the scripts (i.e. hard code the string) before they are installed. I'd like to use the Perl system (not the GNU system) for building so that my module can be used on all systems with Perl. Is what I want to do possible with MakeMaker? Thanks, Peter
