Alien-Libarchive-Installer

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    code on the Internet will generally return an instance of
    Alien::Libarchive::Installer which can be queried to retrieve the
    settings needed to interact with libarchive via XS or FFI::Raw.

 versions_available

     my @versions = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->versions_available;
     my $latest_version = $versions[-1];

    Return the list of versions of libarchive available on the Internet.
    Will throw an exception if the libarchive.org website is unreachable.
    Versions will be sorted from oldest (smallest) to newest (largest).

 fetch

     my($location, $version) = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->fetch(%options);
     my $location = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->fetch(%options);

    NOTE: using this method may (and probably does) require modules
    returned by the build_requires method.

    Download libarchive source from the internet. By default it will
    download the latest version to a temporary directory which will be
    removed when Perl exits. Will throw an exception on failure. Options
    include:

    dir

      Directory to download to

    version

      Version to download

README  view on Meta::CPAN

      if version 0.21 or better is found. Usually this is what you want.

 build_install

     my $installer = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->build_install( '/usr/local', %options );

    NOTE: using this method may (and probably does) require modules
    returned by the build_requires method.

    Build and install libarchive into the given directory. If there is an
    error an exception will be thrown. On a successful build, an instance
    of Alien::Libarchive::Installer will be returned.

    These options may be passed into build_install:

    tar

      Filename where the libarchive source tar is located. If not specified
      the latest version will be downloaded from the Internet.

    dir

lib/Alien/Libarchive/Installer.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

an instance of L<Alien::Libarchive::Installer> which can be
queried to retrieve the settings needed to interact with 
libarchive via XS or L<FFI::Raw>.

=head2 versions_available

 my @versions = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->versions_available;
 my $latest_version = $versions[-1];

Return the list of versions of libarchive available on the Internet.
Will throw an exception if the libarchive.org website is unreachable.
Versions will be sorted from oldest (smallest) to newest (largest).

=head2 fetch

 my($location, $version) = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->fetch(%options);
 my $location = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->fetch(%options);

B<NOTE:> using this method may (and probably does) require modules
returned by the L<build_requires|Alien::Libarchive::Installer#build_requires>
method.

Download libarchive source from the internet.  By default it will
download the latest version to a temporary directory which will
be removed when Perl exits.  Will throw an exception on
failure.  Options include:

=over 4

=item dir

Directory to download to

=item version

lib/Alien/Libarchive/Installer.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

=head2 build_install

 my $installer = Alien::Libarchive::Installer->build_install( '/usr/local', %options );

B<NOTE:> using this method may (and probably does) require modules
returned by the L<build_requires|Alien::Libarchive::Installer>
method.

Build and install libarchive into the given directory.  If there
is an error an exception will be thrown.  On a successful build, an
instance of L<Alien::Libarchive::Installer> will be returned.

These options may be passed into build_install:

=over 4

=item tar

Filename where the libarchive source tar is located.
If not specified the latest version will be downloaded