Re: [Module-build-general] 4th (undocumented) argument to ExtUtils::Install::install

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ken Williams wrote:

> > It'll only unlink a shadowing file _if and only if_ it is installing a
> > new
> > file.  So if you just run "./Build install uninst=1" and nothing has
> > changed, then nothing gets unlinked.
> >
> > I don't know if this is correct, but that's the deal ;)
>
> Yeah, but in my case that's what was happening, and it still didn't
> unlink 'em.

Are you really sure?  On my system, I copied
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/Module/Build/Base.pm to
/usr/share/perl/5.8.0/Module/Build/Base.pm

If I then changed Base.pm and did "./Build install uninst=1" it worked
fine.


-dave

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