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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Subject: Re: misc/13575: perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib;make install fails
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The following reply was made to PR misc/13575; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: misc/13575: perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib;make install fails
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 18:36:23 -0700

 BTW, MakeMaker has a bunch of bugs.  It seems to try to take its idea of
 what the paths from Config.pm should be and use s/// to turn them into
 something else, but
 
 a) it seems to get the defaults wrong -- a perl installation with
 no defaults overridden at configure time (i.e. Config.pm has
 "config_args=''") tries some things that will work:
 
 prefixify INSTALLPRIVLIB (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503), with /usr/local/lib/perl5 -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5
 prefixify INSTALLARCHLIB (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/i686-linux-thread), with /usr/local/lib/perl5 -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5
 
 and some that won't:
 
 prefixify INSTALLMAN1DIR (/usr/local/man/man1), with /usr/local/lib/perl5/man -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/man
 prefixify INSTALLMAN3DIR (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man/man3), with /usr/local/lib/perl5/man -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/man
 
 b) if you give args to Configure, like the FreeBSD build does, MakeMaker
 doesn't take them into account so does even more things wrong:
 
 prefixify INSTALLPRIVLIB (/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503), with /usr/lib/perl5 -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5
 prefixify INSTALLARCHLIB (/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach), with /usr/lib/perl5 -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5
 prefixify INSTALLSITELIB (/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005), with /usr/lib/perl5 -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5
 prefixify INSTALLSITEARCH (/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd), with /usr/lib/perl5 -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5
 prefixify INSTALLMAN1DIR (/usr/local/man/man1), with /usr/lib/perl5/man -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/man
 prefixify INSTALLMAN3DIR (/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man/man3), with /usr/lib/perl5/man -> $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/man
 
 None of these substitutions can work.
 
 
 (this output is from instrumenting ExtUtils::MM_Unix prefixify() with
 print "prefixify $var ($self->{uc $var}), with $sprefix -> $rprefix\n";
 )
 
 I'm not perl-errific enough to want to get into MakeMaker deeply enough
 to try to fix this, especially since it seems more or less fundamentally
 broken.  Perhaps someone with more spare time and/or more perl energy
 can =)
 
   Bill
 


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