Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Autoconf(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation
NAME
Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Autoconf - Autoconf plugin for
Alien::Build
VERSION
version 2.80
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".
NOTE: by itself, this plugin is only intended for use on packages that
include a "configure" script. For packages that expect you to use
Autotools to generate a configure script before building, you can use
Alien::Autotools to generate the "configure" script and use this plugin
to run it. For more details see the documentation for
Alien::Autotools.
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.
SEE ALSO
Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::MSYS(3), Alien::Build::Plugin(3),
Alien::Build(3), Alien::Base(3), Alien(3)
<https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html>
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html>
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 Fandino (salva)
Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
Kang-min Liu (<?><?><?>, gugod)
Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
Juan Julian Merelo Guervos (JJ)
Joel Berger (JBERGER)
Petr Pisar (ppisar)
Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
Jose Joaquin Atria (JJATRIA)
Duke Leto (LETO)
Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
Hakon Haegland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
Florian Weimer
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
perl v5.34.1 2023-05-11
Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::Autoconf(3)
alien-build 2.800.0 - Generated Tue Apr 9 13:47:01 CDT 2024