Re: [Hamlib-developer] Perl binding in 1.2.0

[Joop S. <pg...@xs...>]

Wilbert Knol wrote:
> Thanks, Joop, for the info.
> 
> The @INC path for my interpreter is as follows:
> 
> wk@asus:~> perl -e 'foreach $i (@INC) { print "$i\n"; }'
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
> .
> wk@asus:~>
> 
> ...so anything under /usr/local won't be found.
> 
> The Perl cookbook says:
> 
> "Standard modules are installed in a directory like /usr/lib/perl5, whereas 
> third-party modules are installed in /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl"
> 
> This disagrees with your Debian paths, incidentally. In any case: /usr/local 
> doesn't seem to be a good choice. Hence my suggesion for a --perl-prefix 
> option in Hamlib. Which defaults to /usr, irrespective of the --prefix value.
> 

Sounds like a good idea, the INC path for perl on debian is even weirder:

/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.8
/usr/share/perl/5.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl


> 
> Wilbert, ZL2BSJ
> 
> 
> 

Joop, PG4I