[Kolab-devel] new build mechanism for perl-kolab

[Marcus aka }-Tux-{]

Hello,

Richard Bos and I have made a patch, that makes the perl-kolab module more 
portable to other distributions because in the modules are some hardcoded 
paths like:
/sbin/sendmail
/etc/apache2
... and so on

We used Mark Heily's great program autoperl
( http://heily.com/~mark/projects/autoperl/ ) to make it portable. Autoperl 
is similar to autoconf/automake but it is for perl-modules.
With that program we created a configure script and replaced the hardcoded 
paths with variables.

If it's interesting for you you can test it: 
-untar perl-kolab
-remove the Makefile.PL from all subdirectorys
-remove Makefile
-untar perl-kolab-autoperlized.tgz into the perl-kolab/ directory
-remove the configure.in and Makefile.in
-replace the existing configure file with the new (see attachment)
-apply the perl-kolab-variables.diff (it contains the new variables for the
 hardcoded paths)
-apply the Makefile.am.diff

-now it's the time to run configure
 for example:
	./configure --sysrundir=/var/run  --webserver_confdir=/etc/apache2
-make dist
-make install


I add a complete tarball (perl-kolab.configurable.tar.gz) wich is ready 
for ./configure... so you needn't anything to patch - See attachment :)

Maybe this new build mechanism for perl-kolab can be included in the kolab 
project?


Greets Marcus
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