--- author: email: rafl@fsfe.org keyid: 742f2a428e635a5e name: Florian Ragwitz categories: - Perl comments: [] date: 2006-09-04T17:57:15Z guid: 2f0de8a9-0e57-4261-8462-a5f91dfb8c75 modified: 2006-09-04T17:57:15Z raw: "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n=pod\n\nI recently wrote two two new Perl modules. The first is called\nL and is a library\nbinding for L. It\noffers a convenient interface to sysfs (/sys). After releasing the first\nversion of it for peer review and, later on, to CPAN, I received a lot of\nreports about test failures because of a missing or outdated libsysfs.\n\nTherefor I wished to have something like GNU autoconf for Perl modules. It\nwould be possible to write something similar in pure Perl (someone actually\ntried it: L),\nbut compiling C programs from Perl in a portable way isn't much fun.\n\nTherefor I decided to write some Perl glue around autoconf and autoheader so\nthose tools are easy to use from Makefile.PLs and such. I did so and the result\nis L.\nIt'll be on CPAN within the next few hours. Until then the current version is\navailable from L.\n\nIt currently has some documentation about using it from an\nL-based\nMakefile.PL. Instructions about how to use it with\nL and\nL are still\nmissing.\n\nThe Module::Install part will be done by an extension called\nModule::Install::Autoconf, which I'm currently about to write. For the\nModule::Build part I don't really have an Idea on how to do that, so any help\nfrom some Module::Build people would be very appreciated.\n\n=cut\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)\n\niD8DBQFGCP+kdC8qQo5jWl4RAvaXAJwMlezfrKX5ia7mNAi7eyNjs8LvxwCeJqJx\nd1ICccCwN5VUWmkFP+6Kmco=\n=+I16\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n" signed: 1 summary: " I recently wrote two two new Perl modules. The …" tags: [] text: " I recently wrote two two new Perl modules. The first is called\n Linux::Sysfs and is a library binding for libsysfs. It offers a\n convenient interface to sysfs (/sys). After releasing the first\n version of it for peer review and, later on, to CPAN, I received a\n lot of reports about test failures because of a missing or outdat-\n ed libsysfs.\n\n Therefor I wished to have something like GNU autoconf for Perl mod-\n ules. It would be possible to write something similar in pure Perl\n (someone actually tried it: Config::Autoconf), but compiling C pro-\n grams from Perl in a portable way isn't much fun.\n\n Therefor I decided to write some Perl glue around autoconf and au-\n toheader so those tools are easy to use from Makefile.PLs and such.\n I did so and the result is ExtUtils::Autoconf. It'll be on CPAN\n within the next few hours. Until then the current version is avail-\n able from here.\n\n It currently has some documentation about using it from an ExtUtil-\n s::MakeMaker-based Makefile.PL. Instructions about how to use it\n with Module::Build and Module::Install are still missing.\n\n The Module::Install part will be done by an extension called Mod-\n ule::Install::Autoconf, which I'm currently about to write. For the\n Module::Build part I don't really have an Idea on how to do that, so\n any help from some Module::Build people would be very appreciated.\n" title: Linux::Sysfs and ExtUtils::Autoconf type: pod uri: http://perldition.org/articles/Linux%3A%3ASysfs%20and%20ExtUtils%3A%3AAutoconf.pod xhtml: "
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I recently wrote two two new Perl modules. The first is called\nLinux::Sysfs and is a library\nbinding for libsysfs. It\noffers a convenient interface to sysfs (/sys). After releasing the first\nversion of it for peer review and, later on, to CPAN, I received a lot of\nreports about test failures because of a missing or outdated libsysfs.

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Therefor I wished to have something like GNU autoconf for Perl modules. It\nwould be possible to write something similar in pure Perl (someone actually\ntried it: Config::Autoconf),\nbut compiling C programs from Perl in a portable way isn't much fun.

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Therefor I decided to write some Perl glue around autoconf and autoheader so\nthose tools are easy to use from Makefile.PLs and such. I did so and the result\nis ExtUtils::Autoconf.\nIt'll be on CPAN within the next few hours. Until then the current version is\navailable from here.

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It currently has some documentation about using it from an\nExtUtils::MakeMaker-based\nMakefile.PL. Instructions about how to use it with\nModule::Build and\nModule::Install are still\nmissing.

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The Module::Install part will be done by an extension called\nModule::Install::Autoconf, which I'm currently about to write. For the\nModule::Build part I don't really have an Idea on how to do that, so any help\nfrom some Module::Build people would be very appreciated.

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