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ExtUtils::InstallPerl Programmers Reference GExtUtils::Install(3)

NAME
       ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there

SYNOPSIS
       use ExtUtils::Install;

       install($hashref,$verbose,$nonono);

       uninstall($packlistfile,$verbose,$nonono);

       pm_to_blib($hashref);

DESCRIPTION
       Both install() and uninstall() are specific to the way
       ExtUtils::MakeMaker handles the installation and
       deinstallation of perl modules. They are not designed as
       general purpose tools.

       install() takes three arguments. A reference to a hash, a
       verbose switch and a don't-really-do-it switch. The hash
       ref contains a mapping of directories: each key/value pair
       is a combination of directories to be copied. Key is a
       directory to copy from, value is a directory to copy to.
       The whole tree below the "from" directory will be copied
       preserving timestamps and permissions.

       There are two keys with a special meaning in the hash:
       "read" and "write". After the copying is done, install
       will write the list of target files to the file named by
       $hashref->{write}. If there is another file named by
       $hashref->{read}, the contents of this file will be merged
       into the written file. The read and the written file may
       be identical, but on AFS it is quite likely, people are
       installing to a different directory than the one where the
       files later appear.

       install_default() takes one or less arguments.  If no
       arguments are specified, it takes $ARGV[0] as if it was
       specified as an argument.  The argument is the value of
       MakeMaker's FULLEXT key, like Tk/Canvas.	 This function
       calls install() with the same arguments as the defaults
       the MakeMaker would use.

       The argument-less form is convenient for install scripts
       like

	 perl -MExtUtils::Install -e install_default Tk/Canvas

       Assuming this command is executed in a directory with
       populated blib directory, it will proceed as if the blib
       was build by MakeMaker on this machine.	This is useful
       for binary distributions.

       uninstall() takes as first argument a file containing

16/Sep/1999	       perl 5.005, patch 03			1

ExtUtils::InstallPerl Programmers Reference GExtUtils::Install(3)

       filenames to be unlinked. The second argument is a verbose
       switch, the third is a no-don't-really-do-it-now switch.

       pm_to_blib() takes a hashref as the first argument and
       copies all keys of the hash to the corresponding values
       efficiently. Filenames with the extension pm are
       autosplit. Second argument is the autosplit directory.

16/Sep/1999	       perl 5.005, patch 03			2

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