* Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leon...@leonerd.org.uk> [2014-01-06 23:35]: > Now consider Alien. > > Alien::unibilium installs unibilium into the only place it knows > how - namely, somewhere in Perl's @INC dir. > > At this point, how does the C library "libtermkey"'s Makefile, > manage to find unibilium, to link against it? > > The pkg-config that libtermkey's Makefile invokes cannot itself find > the unibilium.pc file because it's hidden in Perl's @INC dir. > > I currently can't see how Alien::libtermkey /can/ provide a totally > hassle-free self-contained "just do it" installation of libtermkey and > its own C-level dependencies, because of this fact.
You need to configure_requires Alien::unibilium and the module must provide API to query its install location such that the Makefile.PL or Build.PL from Alien::libtermkey can set things up as necessary. (Or maybe Alien::unibilium would provide API to tweak the environment to taste. Not sure which one would be the less leaky abstraction.) -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
