PERL Beginners - Configuration File generator

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Configuration File generator

Tommy Nordgren

2005-04-24, 3:55 pm

I wan't links to any useful tools for generating configure scripts in
perl.
That is, tools to automatically generate the configure script for
open-source
C/C++ projects.

"Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace" -
Tommy Nordgren, "The dying old crone"

Offer Kaye

2005-04-25, 3:56 pm

On 4/24/05, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
> I wan't links to any useful tools for generating configure scripts in
> perl.
> That is, tools to automatically generate the configure script for
> open-source
> C/C++ projects.
>=20

Perl itself uses a "Configure" script generated using the "metaconfig"
tool, which is (as best asI could find) poorly documented. See (if you
must):
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Maker/
The "Configure" script itself can be seen here:
http://search.cpan.org/src/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.6/Configure

IMHO, for C and C++ projects, you are better off using the Automake
and Autoconf tools from the GNU Foundation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

Automake itself is written in Perl.

HTH,
--=20
Offer Kaye

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