Anyone installing Perl modules?

[Bill Moseley <moseley at hank dot org>]

I'm installing pure-perl (i.e. don't have to be built) modules using in:

   $(libexecdir)/perl

and I've got libexecdir defaulting to libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/lib/${PACKAGE}'.

I like this because it keeps my package together in once place, but it means that my
modules are not in the standard @INC.  Even that is not a big problem because programs I 
install in $PATH can be set at configure time to add libexecdir/perl to @INC.  Still, that 
means "perldoc Foo" to read docs in a module I'm installing fails.

But, is there a better or more common way to install my Perl modules into the system @INC 
using Automake/autoconf?  There still should be a way to override where they are installed 
with a configure switch.

Oh, somewhat related and a C question:

If I install a helper program in libexecdir (which is not in the $PATH), what is the best 
way to portably add that path in my C program (for either a popen() or fork/exec to run the 
program)?

Thanks very much,


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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org