Re: [Module::Build] newbie question about custom actions

Tim Mooney wrote:
> [I'm not subscribed to module-build-general, please Cc: me on replies]
>
> All-
>
> I've searched and browsed the module-build-general archives and skimmed
> the pod for Module::Build and Module::Build::Cookbook, and still don't see
> how to do something that should be "simple".
>
> How do I do the equivalent of (in Makefile-ese):
>
> PERL=/path/to/perl
> SOME_CMD=/path/to/some/command
>
> ...
>
> subs :    lib/My/Module.pm
>     $(PERL) -pi -e "s/@SOME_CMD@/$(SOME_CMD)/" $<
>
> build: subs
>     ...continue regular build rule here
>
>
>
>
> In other words, I want a custom action that substitutes the path to some
> command in place of @SOME_CMD@ in my module.  I want the default build
> (really the code) action to happen as normal, but it should depend on
> my custom subs action happening first.
>
> Without completely overriding the default code action, I don't see any
> obvious way to do this.  Is this the kind of thing normally handled by
> a .PL file?
Yes. Write your module as an executable perl script that produces as 
output the modified final version of the module and name it with a .PL 
extension.
See the description of the PL_files parameter to the 
Module::Build->new() constructor in the docs.
Randy.


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