Re: Substituting variables in installed scripts

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, David Kulp wrote:

> This works nicely during development, but on installation I want to change it 
> to
>
> use lib "@libdir@/@PACKAGE@";
>
> for example
>
> use lib "/usr/local/lib/myprog/";
>
> Making a p.pl.in file and having configure process it seems unattractive and 
> doesn't allow me to easily test during development.  Patching during 'make 
> install' seems better, but I don't know the autoconf way.

While it may not be the autoconf-way, don't forget that you can use 
environment variables from within Perl scripts so you could use an 
environment variable to influence the path.  Of course the installed 
scripts would continue to be sensitive to the environment variable.

Bob
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