perl-module-build

'Module::Build' is a system for building, testing, and installing Perl modules. It is meant to be an alternative to 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker'. Developers may alter the behavior of the module through subclassing. It also does not require a 'make' on your system - most of the 'Module::Build' code is pure-perl and written in a very cross-platform way. See "COMPARISON" for more comparisons between 'Module::Build' and other installer tools. To install 'Module::Build', and any other module that uses 'Module::Build' for its installation process, do the following: perl Build.PL # 'Build.PL' script creates the 'Build' script ./Build # Need ./ to ensure we're using this "Build" script ./Build test # and not another one that happens to be in the PATH ./Build install This illustrates initial configuration and the running of three 'actions'. In this case the actions run are 'build' (the default action), 'test', and 'install'. Other actions defined so far include: build manifest clean manifest_skip code manpages config_data pardist diff ppd dist ppmdist distcheck prereq_data distclean prereq_report distdir pure_install distinstall realclean distmeta retest distsign skipcheck disttest test docs testall fakeinstall testcover help testdb html testpod install testpodcoverage installdeps versioninstall You can run the 'help' action for a complete list of actions.