NAME

Alien::libtool24 - Built or find libtool 2.4.x

VERSION

version 0.04

SYNOPSIS

From your Alien::Base based Build.PL:

Alien::Base::ModuleBuild->new(
  ...
  alien_bin_requires => {
    'Alien::libtool24' => 0,
  },
  alien_build_commands => [
    ...
    'libtool ...',
    ...
  ],
  ...
);

From regular Perl:

use Alien::libtool24;
use env qw( @PATH );

# puts libtook in the PATH if it isn't already there
unshift @PATH, Alien::libtool24->bin_dir;
system 'libtool ...';

DESCRIPTION

This module will download and install libtool 2.4.x if it is not already available on your system. As with other Alien::Base based distributions it will install into a distribution based share directory which will not override or otherwise malign your system software.

METHODS

bin_dir

my $dir = Alien::libtool24->bin_dir;

Returns the directory which contains the libtool and libtoolize scripts. Adding this to the PATH usually means that you can run these commands without fully qualifying them. Returns empty list if libtool is already in the PATH.

dist_dir

my $dir = Alien::libtool24->dist_dir;

Returns the base install directory of libtool if it was installed by building it from source, rather than using your system's version of libtool.

CAVEATS

This works(ish) on Windows, in that it installs, but libtool installs itself as a shell script which can be used with Alien::MSYS, but is not very useful by itself. Alien::Hunspell uses this module successfully, but somewhat hackishly on Windows.

SEE ALSO

Alien

Alien::Base

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.