[Chicago-talk] Anyone help installing a perl module?

[James Keenan]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Andy Lester wrote:

> Here's how we build it on our dev server:
>
> alester at blitz[/usr/src]$ cat config.GD
> #!/bin/sh
>
> perl Makefile.PL -lib_gd_path="/usr/local/lib" -options="PNG"
>
> If you don't keep configs in a config.whatever file in your /usr/src 
> directory, do so.  You WILL need them again.
>
Andy:  For what percentage of your modules do you maintain such a 
config file?

Or, perhaps better put, what are the characteristics of modules that 
merit such a config file?

Thanks.

jimk