NAME

Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Autoconf - Autoconf plugin for Alien::Build

VERSION

version 2.48

SYNOPSIS

 use alienfile;
 plugin 'Build::Autoconf';

DESCRIPTION

This plugin provides some tools for building projects that use autoconf. The main thing this provides is a "configure" helper, documented below and the default build stage, which is:

 '%{configure} --disable-shared',
 '%{make}',
 '%{make} install',

On Windows, this plugin also pulls in the Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::MSYS which is required for autoconf style projects on windows.

The other thing that this plugin does is that it does a double staged "DESTDIR" install. The author has found this improves the overall reliability of Alien modules that are based on autoconf packages.

This plugin supports out-of-source builds (known in autoconf terms as "VPATH" builds) via the meta property "out_of_source".

PROPERTIES

with_pic

Adds "--with-pic" option when running "configure". If supported by your package, it will generate position independent code on platforms that support it. This is required to XS modules, and generally what you want.

autoconf normally ignores options that it does not understand, so it is usually a safe and reasonable default to include it. A small number of projects look like they use autoconf, but are really an autoconf style interface with a different implementation. They may fail if you try to provide it with options such as "--with-pic" that they do not recognize. Such packages are the rationale for this property.

msys_version

The version of Alien::MSYS required if it is deemed necessary. If Alien::MSYS isn't needed (if running under Unix, or MSYS2, for example) this will do nothing.

config_site

The content for the generated "config.site".

HELPERS

configure

 %{configure}

The correct incantation to start an autoconf style "configure" script on your platform. Some reasonable default flags will be provided.

ENVIRONMENT

"SITE_CONFIG": For a share install, this plugin needs to alter the behavior of autotools using "site.config". It does this by generating a "site.config" file on the fly, and setting the "SITE_CONFIG" environment variable. In the event that you already have your own "SITE_CONFIG" set, that file will be sourced from the generated one, so your local defaults should still be honored, unless it is one that needs to be changed for a share install.
In particular, the "lib" directory must be overridden, because on some platforms dynamic libraries will otherwise be placed in directories that Alien::Build doesn't normally look in. Since the alienized package will be installed in a share directory, and not a system directory, that should be fine.
"ALIEN_BUILD_SITE_CONFIG": If defined, this file will be also be sourced in the generated "site.config". This allows you to have local defaults for alien share installs only.

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Písař (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.