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Where to download?
Makepp is hosted on SourceForge and can be downloaded as a source code
tarball or as installation package for Debian .deb based Linuxes or .rpm
based Linuxes from http://sourceforge.net/projects/makepp/files/
Like tons of Perl software, makepp can also be downloaded from CPAN by
clicking the Download link on http://search.cpan.org/dist/makepp/
Makepp is part of Debian GNU/Linux unstable and testing. This means you
can install it directly via "apt-get install makepp" or by choosing it
from your preferred package tool like synaptic.
Makepp is part of Gentoo Linux. Note that their 2.0-r1 is not the
release candidate 1, but the final released version 2.0.
Can I try it without installing?
Yes, if you want to try makepp on your own makefiles, either put the
directory where you unpacked it into your path, or else run it
explicitly like this, with an absolute or relative path to makepp:
perl /where/you/unpacked/it/makepp
How to choose perl version?
You must have Perl 5.8 or newer somewhere on your system. By default all
uninstalled scripts will use the "perl" in your path. But you can run
them with an explicit instance of perl. The test runner and installation
will run everything with this same instance.
/path/to/perl /where/you/unpacked/it/makepp
In case some script doesn't properly recognize which "perl" it is being
run with, you can help it by telling it the path to the same instance of
perl via the "PERL" variable:
PERL=/path/to/perl /path/to/perl /where/you/unpacked/it/makepp
This can also be an instance to be searched in your path:
PERL=perl5.16.2 perl5.16.2 /where/you/unpacked/it/makepp
How to install?
There are two ways to install, which lead to the same result:
configure (alias config.pl)
This allows for traditional style installation:
./configure && make test && make install
The only difference between these two is that "configure" is not a
Perl script, so you can't say "perl configure", whereas you can use
all the above variants like "perl config.pl". Valid options are:
-b, --bindir=/path/to/installation/bin
Where the binaries go (default: *prefix*/bin). Makepp's binaries
are just Perl scripts so they are architecture independent.
-d, --datadir=/path/to/installation/share/makepp
Where to install makepp's library files (default:
*prefix*/share/makepp).
-f, --findbin=relative/path/to/datadir/from/bindir
Where to find libraries relative to executables, or 'none' (the
default) to find them in *datadir*.
-h, --htmldir=/path/to/installation/share/html
Where the HTML documentation goes (default: *datadir*/html), or
'none' if you do not want it installed.
-m, --mandir=/path/to/man
Where the manual pages should reside (default: *prefix*/man), or
'none' if you do not want them installed.
--makefile=/path/to/Makefile
Specify location where you can write the Makefile (default: .).
Unlike the other options, which are remembered for the following
install step, this file is created immediately.
-p, --prefix=/path/to/installation
Specify location where you want to install everything (default:
/usr/local). All other paths are by default relative to this
one.
-V
--version
Print out the version number.
If you want to do a mockup installation to some destdir for
packaging your own distribution, you can give an extra parameter to
the last command:
make DESTDIR=/temporary/destdir install
install.pl
This is the backend that performs the actual installation. You can
call it directly:
./install.pl bindir datadir mandir htmldir findbin destdir
The parameters are optional and correspond to the options from the
previous section. You are prompted for those you don't supply,
except for the last one, which is not normally needed.
*Makefile.PL*
The customary file Makefile.PL is only present for technical
reasons. It will not help you to install.
On some systems whichever "perl" you end up calling may be a symbolic
link to some precise version "perl5.m.n". In this case perl sees only
that one, and will thus use it to install against. If you don't want
that, use the "PERL" variable as described above. If you install with
the second variant, i.e. just the name of the executable without
slashes, the installed scripts will always search for that one via
"/usr/bin/env". This makes them a tiny bit slower to start, for a
greater flexibility.
Why does installation say permission denied?
If you want to install to a system directory like /usr, /usr/local or
/opt, you can only do that if you run the installation as user root. On
many Unices you can run a command as root, by prepending "sudo" to it,
and depending on the system entering the either the root password, or
yours, as prompted for.
This is not necessary for the preparatory "configure" or "config.pl"
step which only writes a Makefile in the current directory.
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