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===== ExtUtils::MakeMaker =====
With the invention of [[http://www.cpan.org/|CPAN]] there needed to be a well defined way to install a package. At the time very often there were parts of the package written in C that needed to be built along the Perl code. Using ''make was a given but the ''Makefile needed to conform to certain conventions. To ensure these conventions a script ''Makefile.PL'' was written using the ''[[http://perldoc.perl.org/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html|ExtUtils::MakeMaker]]'' module. With this the sequence to install a Perl package became:
With the invention of [[http://www.cpan.org/|CPAN]] there needed to be a well defined way to install a package. At the time very often there were parts of the package written in C that needed to be built along the Perl code. Using ''make'' was a given but the ''Makefile'' needed to conform to certain conventions. To ensure these conventions a script ''Makefile.PL'' was written using the ''[[http://perldoc.perl.org/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html|ExtUtils::MakeMaker]]'' module. With this the sequence to install a Perl package became:
