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I recently wrote two two new Perl modules. The first is called
L<Linux::Sysfs|http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Linux-Sysfs/> and is a library
binding for L<libsysfs|http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html>. 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reports about test failures because of a missing or outdated libsysfs.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: L<Config::Autoconf|http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/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 L<ExtUtils::Autoconf|http://search.cpan.org/~flora/ExtUtils-Autoconf/>.
It'll be on CPAN within the next few hours. Until then the current version is
available from L<here|http://files.perldition.org/ExtUtils-Autoconf-0.01.tar.gz>.

It currently has some documentation about using it from an
L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker|http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/>-based
Makefile.PL. Instructions about how to use it with
L<Module::Build|http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Module-Build/> and
L<Module::Install|http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/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.

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