Alien::Build::rc(3)

💖 Alien::Build::rc — the vibe

okay so bestie, this is Alien::Build::rc, aka the local config situation for Alien::Build. It's living in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (section 3, for the pedantic girlies 👑), and it's basically the lil file where you get to have opinions about how your Aliens behave. slay.

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✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.88 — yes queen, that's the one 🌸

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

so you drop this in your ~/.alienbuild/rc.pl:

preload 'Foo::Bar';
postload 'Baz::Frooble';

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Here's the tea ☕: Alien::Build will load your ~/.alienbuild/rc.pl file — if it exists — before running the alienfile recipe. Like, before before. 🫶

Why do you care? Because it means you can alter the behavior of Alien::Build based Aliens when you've got local configuration requirements of your own. For example, you can prompt before downloading remote content, or fetch from a local mirror. local girlie behavior, honestly iconic. ✨

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🌈 FUNCTIONS 🌈

💜 logx

log $message;

Sends a message to the Alien::Build log. just like, telling on yourself but productively 🍓

💜 preload_plugin

preload_plugin $plugin, @args;

Preloads the given plugin, with arguments. args included, no cap.

💜 postload_plugin

postload_plugin $plugin, @args;

Postloads the given plugin, with arguments. same energy, different timing ⭐

💜 preload

[deprecated] ⚠️

preload $plugin;

Preloads the given plugin. ngl bestie, this one's deprecated — use preload_plugin instead, she's the upgraded model 💅

💜 postload

[deprecated] ⚠️

postload $plugin;

Postloads the given plugin. also deprecated fr fr — postload_plugin is the one you want now 🧚

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Cache
• Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Prompt
• Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Rewrite
• Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::Override

go read these, they're the supporting cast and they ate 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors — the whole group chat, give them their flowers 💐:

• Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
• Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
• Ilya Pavlov
• David Mertens (run4flat)
• Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
• Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
• Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
• Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
• mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
• Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
• Flavio Poletti (polettix)
• Salvador Fandiño (salva)
• Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
• Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
• Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)
• Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
• Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)
• Joel Berger (JBERGER)
• Petr Písař (ppisar)
• Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
• Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
• José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)
• Duke Leto (LETO)
• Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
• Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
• Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
• Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
• nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
• Florian Weimer
• Marcel Telka (mtelka)

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. periodt. 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this lil beauty shipped as part of perl v5.42.3 and the page is dated 2026-09-21 — so like, whenever you're reading this, you're reading a certified classic. mwah 💋✨🦋