[Catalyst] Requirement for Makfile.PL or Build.PL in "home"?

[Jeff Chimene]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:11:19PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote:
>   
>> Great. How does one move the root/ directory? It gets into the .tar
>> file, but isn't deployed on the production server.
>>     
>
> Assuming Catalyst::Devel is installed on the server you did the make dist
> on, the 'catalyst()' line in your Makefile.PL should invoke the bundled
> inc/Module/Install/Catalyst.pm such that the root/ directory will go
> into site_perl along with everything else; then at runtime Catalyst will
> use File::ShareDir to find this directory again, meaning MyApp->path_to
> will resolve paths to in there.
>
> Assuming that's -not- what you're seeing, can you check your inc/ to make
> sure the Catalyst Module::Install extension's in there and then maybe use
> 'make -n install' or a find on site_perl to see if your root/ has just
> been installed somewhere you didn't expect.
>   
Make::Install is there:
$ ls -R inc
inc:
Module

inc/Module:
AutoInstall.pm  Install  Install.pm

inc/Module/Install:
AutoInstall.pm  Can.pm    Include.pm   Metadata.pm  Win32.pm
Base.pm         Fetch.pm  Makefile.pm  Scripts.pm   WriteAll.pm

make -n install shows:
/usr/bin/perl "-Iinc" "-MExtUtils::Command" -e mkpath
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/bin/perl "-Iinc" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" -e perllocal_install \
        "Module" "aic" \
        "installed into" "/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3" \
        LINKTYPE "dynamic" \
        VERSION "0.01" \
        EXE_FILES "script/aic_cgi.pl script/aic_create.pl
script/aic_fastcgi.pl script/aic_server.pl script/aic_test.pl" \
        >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
> If that doesn't bring enlightenment, tell us what you -did- see when you
> checked the things I just suggested and with a bit of luck we'll be able to
> figure out what's not going to plan.
>   
Thanks for your assistance.

This probably has something to do with the newly discovered requirement
to define CATALYST_HOME in the package. For now, I've put it into the
aic_cgi.pl script.

As badly as things have gone with this technique as well as the
responses I've received from you and Jonathan, I will avoid asking the
list for further advice.

Cheers,
jec