Re: Creating installable scripts

[liz]

Check out "EXE_FILES" in ExtUtils::MakeMaker. From the documentation:

EXE_FILES

Ref to array of executable files. The files will be copied to the INST_SCRIPT directory. Make realclean will delete them from there again. If your executables start with something like #!perl or #!/usr/bin/perl MakeMaker will change this to the path of the perl 'Makefile.PL' was invoked with so the programs will be sure to run properly even if perl is not in /usr/bin/perl.

Whenever I need to have scripts installed, I just put them in the "scripts" directory and add:

  EXE_FILES      => [<script/*>],

to the call to ExtUtils::MakeMaker's "WriteMakefile".

Liz

[bronto]

BINGO!

++liz! That was exactly what I was looking for!

Surely I noticed that feature when I read the docs of ExtUtils::MakeMaker months ago, but I completely forgot where I learnt about it; just remembered that something somewhere worked that way.

Thanks a lot!

Ciao!
--bronto

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