Use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to install scripts

Exactly. This is why for all Perl scripts I'm going to distrubute on other systems I use ExtUtils::MakeMaker which does such patching automatically.

It is very simple:

< Makefile.PL file >

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(NAME      => 'Hello',
              VERSION   => '1.00',
              EXE_FILES => ['hello']);

< MANIFEST file >

Makefile.PL
hello

< hello file >

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Hello, world!\n";
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Once finished you can type perl Makefile.PL; make dist and get tarball ready to install with tar zxvf Hello-1.00.tar.gz; cd Hello-1.00; perl Makefile.PL; make; make install

Update: Replaced 'script.pl' with 'hello' in 'MANIFEST'.

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•Re: Re: Re: shebang line - foreign to me by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 27, 2002 at 17:58 UTC
Exactly. This is why for all Perl scripts I'm going to distrubute on other systems I use ExtUtils::MakeMaker which does such patching automatically. Either that's a recent feature (and therefore not portable), or hasn't been documented. Where did you find out about this? -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: •Re: Re: Re: shebang line - foreign to me by IlyaM (Parson) on Dec 29, 2002 at 11:28 UTC
Either that's a recent feature (and therefore not portable), or hasn't been documented. I think it was there at least since 5.005. There is some mentions of this feature in ExtUtils::MM_Unix (search for fixin) but it seems it is not documented anywhere properly. Where did you find out about this? From personal experience. I just noticed that ExtUtils::MakeMaker always replaces my shebang with something else :) For example on my Linux system it replaces existing shebang with `#!/usr/bin/perl -w eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' if 0; # not running under some shell` [download] On Win32 I noticed that ExtUtils::MakeMaker does another magic. It creates .bat file which wraps perl script and adds .pl extenstion to perl script when doing its installation. I found that at least on Unix, Unix-like systems and on Win32 systems ExtUtils::MakeMaker does the right thing. -- Ilya Martynov, ilya@iponweb.net CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to install scripts by jmerelo (Sexton) on Feb 02, 2005 at 11:07 UTC
`Makefile.PL script.pl` [download] Wouldn't that be `Makefile.PL hello` [download] ?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Use ExtUtils::MakeMaker to install scripts by IlyaM (Parson) on Feb 07, 2005 at 09:54 UTC
Good catch. Fixed. -- Ilya Martynov, ilya@iponweb.net CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org	[reply]


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