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I recently wrote two two new Perl modules. The first is called Linux::Sysfs and is a library binding for libsysfs. It offers a convenient interface to sysfs (/sys). After releasing the first version of it for peer review and, later on, to CPAN, I received a lot of reports about test failures because of a missing or outdated libsysfs.

Therefor I wished to have something like GNU autoconf for Perl modules. It would be possible to write something similar in pure Perl (someone actually tried it: Config::Autoconf), but compiling C programs from Perl in a portable way isn't much fun.

Therefor I decided to write some Perl glue around autoconf and autoheader so those tools are easy to use from Makefile.PLs and such. I did so and the result is ExtUtils::Autoconf. It'll be on CPAN within the next few hours. Until then the current version is available from here.

It currently has some documentation about using it from an ExtUtils::MakeMaker-based Makefile.PL. Instructions about how to use it with Module::Build and Module::Install are still missing.

The Module::Install part will be done by an extension called Module::Install::Autoconf, which I'm currently about to write. For the Module::Build part I don't really have an Idea on how to do that, so any help from some Module::Build people would be very appreciated.