NAME
    Alien::SamTools - Fetch/build/stash the SamTools headers and libs.

VERSION
    version 0.001

SYNOPSIS
    By way of an example, the following change to the "Build.PL" file in the
    "Bio-SamTools-1.39" distribution provides it with the information it
    needs to find the headers and library that Alien::SamTools installed.

        ===================================================================
        RCS file: Build.PL,v
        retrieving revision 1.1
        diff -r1.1 Build.PL
        4a5
        > use Module::Load::Conditional qw(can_load);
        69a71,76
        > sub _samtools {
        >     $ENV{SAMTOOLS} ||
        >     ( can_load(modules => {'Alien::SamTools' => undef, 'File::ShareDir' => undef}) &&
        >       File::ShareDir::dist_dir('Alien-SamTools'));
        > }
        >
        73c80
        <     if (my $samtools = $ENV{SAMTOOLS}) {
        ---
        >     if (my $samtools = _samtools()) {

DESCRIPTION
    Download, build, and install the SamTools C headers and libraries into a
    well-known location, "File::ShareDir::dist_dir('Alien-SamTools')", from
    whence other packages can make use of them.

    It currently installs samtools-0.1.19.tar.bz2
    <http://colocrossing.dl.sourceforge.net/project/samtools/samtools/0.1.19
    /samtools-0.1.19.tar.bz2>.

AUTHOR
    George Hartzell

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Genentech.

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

