Andrew Savige replied to me offlist with a good solution.
Taking a hint from lib/Net/Config.pm
my $file = __FILE__;
my $ref;
$file =~ s/Config.pm/libnet.cfg/;
Thank you all for your help!
This may be a good question to stick in a FAQ or some documentation
somewhere. This solution isn't specific to MakeMaker, and I can't say if
MakeMaker is the right place for this question, but the MakeMaker docs
were the first place I looked to find this answer, so who knows.
Thanks again,
--
Josh I.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Forwarding to the MakeMaker ML because that seems a better place to get
> an answer. This suggests a more general question that might belong in
> the MakeMaker FAQ: What make variables are usefull to authors in
> Makefile.PL?
>
>
> On 12/3/2003 11:26 PM, jmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I've looked through my O'Reilly bookshelf, google'd, RTFM's, and I haven't
> > found the *right* way to do this, and I'm not even sure this is the right
> > place to be asking this. Anyway...
> >
> > I have a perl module that needs to have access to a group of .png files
> > that ship with it. So, I made an /images directory under MyModuleName/
> > directory, and put them in there, and they get installed in the perl lib
> > directory just fine.
> > Now, my module needs to be able to find those, and use them, and I don't
> > know what the right way to do that is.
> >
> > I've found a way to do it, but it seems like an ugly kludge to me. I put
> > the text "----SRC_IMAGES----" in my perl module where I needed to know the
> > directory the images where in, and added a PM_FILTER to the Makefile.PL
> > like this:
> > 'PM_FILTER' => 'perl -pe
> > "s!----SRC_IMAGES----!$(INSTALLSITELIB)/$(FULLEXT)!g"'
> >
> > The module has a way to override this default directory, so my tests just
> > override the default directory with "MyModuleName/images" so that it uses
> > the images from the distribution directory during testing.
> >
> > This will work as long as the module get's installed into
> > the $(INSTALLSITELIB) directory (which even works when you specify
> > PREFIX=/some/dir). But I can't imagine that this is the right way to do
> > something like this. I'm also concerned that it could get installed
> > somewhere else on some perl installations, but I don't know.
> >
> > For those interested, the module is Authen::Captcha.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > --
> > Josh I.
> >
>
>
> --
> A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
> Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
> There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain;
> And drinking largely sobers us again.
> - Alexander Pope
>
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