Perl application and configuration files?

Question

Perl

Is there a platform independent way to deploy application configuration files? I would like that when executing the commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make && make test && make install

configs were installed in /etc/ (be sure to take into account PREFIX). Since FreeBSD is used as the OS, in principle, make-hooks can be used for this. But it will only work on FreeBSD.

Answer 1

>perl Makefile.PL
Since perl is run before make, use this beautiful platform-independent language to determine the appropriate prefix.
Here is the first example from DBD::Interbase
…
my $os = $Config::Config{'osname'};
if ($os eq 'MSWin32')
{… and then let's poke around in the registry.