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| author | Francois Perrad <fperrad@gmail.com> | 2017-01-24 09:25:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2017-01-29 14:54:08 +0100 |
| commit | 7f102d8284acf6619a1e8119dc76dc48957a4bef (patch) | |
| tree | da97491c69fc54a62ce3ef8cf56e886e1da4c4ec /docs | |
| parent | 08a15442bf053705e4147eed74e1e4e8e80b5ea9 (diff) | |
pkg-perl: add PREFER_INSTALLER variable
Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
[Thomas: tweak documentation.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt index 4f5a6a406..3476b6281 100644 --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ As a policy, packages that provide Perl/CPAN modules should all be named +perl-<something>+ in Buildroot. This infrastructure handles various Perl build systems : -+ExtUtils-MakeMaker+, +Module-Build+ and +Module-Build-Tiny+. -+Build.PL+ is always preferred when a package provides a +Makefile.PL+ ++ExtUtils-MakeMaker+ (EUMM), +Module-Build+ (MB) and +Module-Build-Tiny+. ++Build.PL+ is preferred by default when a package provides a +Makefile.PL+ and a +Build.PL+. The main macro of the Perl/CPAN package infrastructure is @@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ A few additional variables, specific to the Perl/CPAN infrastructure, can also be defined. Many of them are only useful in very specific cases, typical packages will therefore only use a few of them. +* +PERL_FOO_PREFER_INSTALLER+/+HOST_PERL_FOO_PREFER_INSTALLER+, + specifies the preferred installation method. Possible values are + +EUMM+ (for +Makefile.PL+ based installation using + +ExtUtils-MakeMaker+) and +MB+ (for +Build.PL+ based installation + using +Module-Build+). This variable is only used when the package + provides both installation methods. + * +PERL_FOO_CONF_ENV+/+HOST_PERL_FOO_CONF_ENV+, to specify additional environment variables to pass to the +perl Makefile.PL+ or +perl Build.PL+. By default, empty. |