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portage-manpages
Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo
Developer:	Gentoo Foundation
Category:	app-portage
License:	GPL-2
Website:	http://www.gentoo.org/

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NAME DESCRIPTION FUNCTIONS REPORTING BUGS SEE ALSO FILES AUTHORS

PERL-MODULE.ECLASS

Section: portage (5)
Updated: Jun 2003  

NAME

perl-module.eclass - handles generic perl module ebuilds  

DESCRIPTION

The perl-module eclass is used for the compilation, testing, and installation of perl modules within the portage system, following vanilla procedure for modules using either ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3pm) or Module::Builder(3pm).  

FUNCTIONS

perl-module_src_prep

Create the initial Makefile.

perl-module_src_compile

Calls perl-module_src_prep if it hasn't been already. Runs initial make.

perl-module_src_test

If invoked, runs all the tests distributed with the module.

perl-module_src_install

Runs `make install` (or the Module::Builder(3pm) equivelant if it is a builder module). Also cleans build paths from pod files and generated perllocal.pod.

perl-module_pkg_setup

Calls perlinfo.

perl-module_pkg_preinst

Calls perlinfo.

perl-module_pkg_postinst

Calls updatepod.

perl-module_pkg_prerm

Calls updatepod.

perl-module_pkg_postrm

Calls updatepod.

fixlocalpod

Handles the building of the perllocal.pod files to avoid collisions with an existing perllocal.pod.

perlinfo

Updates the gentoo-pods documentation.

updatepod

Cleans the perllocal.pods in ARCH_LIB and SITE_LIB.

 

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/  

SEE ALSO

ebuild(5), ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3pm), Module::Build(3pm), perl(1)  

FILES

/usr/portage/eclass/perl-module.eclass  

AUTHORS

Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

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Updated Time:: 07:02:07 GMT, October 30, 2006