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Re: Building C modules hurts (Score:1)
I feel your pain!
What I found the best approach to automation was to patch the Makefile.PL respectively to ask the module authors to accept the changes. Imager [cpan.org] reads some environment variables in addition to command line switches to the Makefile.PL for example, which makes configuration/installation from the outside far easier, as there is no need to download and patch the files.
A second approach might be to use the distroprefs feature of CPAN [cpan.org], where you can apply your own patches to distributions every time CPAN installs them. That still means the manual labor of patching a distribution into submission, but after you've created your patch, CPAN can apply it for you and you can release that patch onto CPAN for others to use as well.
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What annoys me is I don't know what the "right" solution to this stuff is!
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