Re: Preview of some introspection stuff

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 22:53 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 17:10:58 +0200, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> > Unfortunately, you'll have to always be in PDF-Poppler-0.01/ for
> > anything to work, because otherwise the needed data/poppler.raw will not
> > be found.  If anyone has some insights into how to install data files,
> > I'd appreciate any advise.
>
> I have installed glade files among perl modules some time ago. Take advantage
> of the fact, that _everything_ in lib is considered a module, no matter what
> extension it has (by EU::MM, that is, IIRC). So just put it in as
> lib/PDF/Poppler/poppler.raw. Then open 'perldoc -f require' and copy the code
> you find there, replace the "do $realfilename" with whatever loading is
> appropriate and ask it to load "PDF/Poppler/poppler.raw".

I had to coerce Module::Build into installing poppler.raw like so:

  pm_files          => {
      'lib/PDF/Poppler.pm'          => 'lib/PDF/Poppler.pm',
      'lib/PDF/Poppler/poppler.raw' => 'lib/PDF/Poppler/poppler.raw',
  },

But otherwise it worked great.  Thanks!

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten