*NOTE*: Please consider for new development of Aliens that you use Alien::Build and alienfile instead. Like this module they work with Alien::Base. Unlike this module they are more easily customized and handle a number of corner cases better. For a good place to start, please see Alien::Build::Manual::AlienAuthor. Although the Alien-Base / Alien-Build team will continue to maintain this module, (we will continue to fix bugs where appropriate), we aren't adding any new features to this module.

This is a subclass of Module::Build, that with Alien::Base allows for easy creation of Alien distributions. This module is used during the build step of your distribution. When properly configured it will

* use pkg-config to find and use the system version of the library
* download, build and install the library if the system does not provide it